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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

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District Vet's. Interesting Talk A.P.P.U. Learns About "Lamb Sickness" Fire Questions at Guest Speaker

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 March 1950 · page 3

Mr. N. K. Golding, District Veterinary Officer of Cootamundra, visited Harden, and addressed the local branch of the…

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Bush Fire Information at Royal Show

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 1

A feature of the Bush Fire Committee's Information Bureau at the Royal Agricultural Show this year will be an exhibit of…

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Fire Threat to British Arsenal

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.—A great blaze was reported at 2 a.m. today to be sweeping Woolwich Arsental, the biggest…

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Two Fire Fighters Rescued

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Two men who were trying to stem an oil blaze were rescued unconscious from a fume and smoke-filled…

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BUSHFIRE Equipment at R.A. Show

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1950 · page 3

A feature of the Bush Fire Committee's Information Bureau at the Royal Agricultural Show this year will be an exhibit of…

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Ship on Fire Carrying Cargo of Dynamite

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The American cargo ship, Santa Rita carrying 4,000 cases of dynamite, is racing towards…

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Says Wife Set Fire to Him

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A man said in the Divorce Court today that his wife poured methylated spirits on his…

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Fire Danger Over

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 2

The Shire Clerk reported that the bush fire danger period had now been de-proclaimed. When this period was in opera…

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Sanitorium a Patient Admits to Tragic Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 1

PHILADELPHIA, Friday — According to police, a 26-year-old patient, Nicholas Verna, admits he set a fire that killed nine…

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Mental Patient Sats He Started Fire Was Once Convicted on Charge of Arson

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 1

(A.A.P.) PHILADELPHIA: According to the police, a 20-ypar-old patient, Nicholas Vein, admits that he started the fire that…

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New Advance in Marine Fire Fighting

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

Two new Royal Air Force fire floats, representing latest developments in marine fire fighting, were recently demonstrated…

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Open Verdict at Inquiry on Leeton Fire

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 1

LEETON, Wednesday: Mr. T. Henderson, District Coroner, to-day inquired into the fire In the wheat stacks at the Leeton…

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Inquiry into fire in wheat stack Cause not ascertained

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 6

At the Leeton Court House on Tuesday afternoon the District Coroner, Mr. T. Henderson, conducted an inquiry into…

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Three Boys Charged With Starting Fires

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 2

LITHGOW, Tuesday: Police today charged three Lithgow schoolboys with attempting to set Ore to pit-top buildings at…

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Two Die in Fire Near Albury

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 1

ALBURY, Sunday: Two men were burnt to death on the Hume Highway, about 12 miles from Albury shortly after 6…

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Two Killed: Fire on Oil Tanker

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Monday (A.A.P.-Reuter): Two Indonesian sailors of the British oil tanker, Lingula, were killed and two were burned when the vessel caught fire late last night at the island of Pulau…

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Fire at Kenm0re Mental. Hosptal

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 April 1950 · page 1

Fire broke out in the two-storey women’s section of Kenmore Mental Hospital on Monday night. but was extinguished after half an hour by…

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Police Fire on Rioters

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 3

JOHANNESBURG, Monday: Police opened fire in Johannesburg yesterday during the rioting in which one African was…

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Fire Destroys Garage at Yerong Creek

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 2

YERONG CREEK, Monday: A fire which originated in a battery charging machine resulted in the total destruction of…

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Spectacular Fire Witnessed by Leeton Resident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 3

A Leeton resident who was in Lithgow a few days ago, when the Jeldi Manufacturing Company's factory at the commercial centre was destroyed,…

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