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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

406 stories in Riverina's papers · page 21 of 21

Child Starts Fire

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1943 · page 2

Procuring some matches from her home, a little girl set alight to some grass in Elizabeth-street, North Wagga, yesterday afternoon. The…

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Fire at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1943 · page 2

A grass fire at the intersection of Ridge and Boundary streets, Junee, burnt some fencing. The Junee Fire Bri[?]de, under Captain Edwards, was…

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£1000 Damage in Sydney Fire

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: within half an hour a fire gutted a two-storey factory at Camperdown early to-day, causing damage estimated at almost…

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Berlin Heavily Bombed EFFECTIVE R.A.R. Raid Large Fires Caused

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Friday (AAP): The A[?] Ministry reports that RAF bombere heavily attacked Berlin. First reports indicate that the attack was very…

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Fire in Wheat Crop

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 2

The back-firing of a tractor, started a fire in a wheat crop, that was being harvested on Mr. G. M, Nielsen's property at Murrami, on Tuesday…

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Nine Deaths in Victorian Bush Fire

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 2

Nine lives were lost, and nine other victims were admitted to Wangaratta Hospital, as a result of the bush fire which swept through grassland and…

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Grass Fire Near Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 2

The K[?]onka fire brigade received a call yesterday afternoon about 1.30 o'clock to a fire to the left of the Sturt highway and about six miles from…

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