Smoke Haze Closes Many Aerodromes Renewed Bush Fire Outbreaks
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 November 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday—Smoke haze from bush fires closed, every civil and R.A.A.F. airfield in the Sydney area for more than four hours today. SHORTLY after 6.30 this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Korean Cease-fire Talks Agreement Soon?
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 November 1951 · page 1
MUNSAN (Korea), Monday—Allied and Communist negotiators were close to an agreement yesterday on where to draw the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Summer Bosh Fire Threat in Gundagai District
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 November 1951 · page 1
The Bush fire danger in the Gundagai district will grow daily as the hot weather advances, and there has never been such an occasion for vigilance as exists this season…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfires die down
Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sunday: Bushfires in danger areas of the Slate have slackened or have been brought under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 3
The executive of the Lockhart Bush Fire Brigade had a meeting on Friday, Cr. D. L. Browne, president, being in the chair. Much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stock Inspector Wilshire Reports Bush Fire Danger Real
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 7
In his report for October on pastoral and agricultural conditions, Stock Inspector M. Wilshire reports:…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fire Victims Car Backfire Caused Lot of Trouble
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, TUESDAY—A woman was severely burned, and her husband injured, when a car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proclamation on fires reissued
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Monday: The Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt) tonight reissued the proclamation prohibiting the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Proclamation on Fires Re-issued
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Olive Evatt) last night reissued the proclamation prohibition the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Fires Started by Lightning
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 3
Last week there were two country-side fires attributed to lightning. Fortunately in both instances the damage done was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man gaoled for lighting fires
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 2
MAITLAND, Mon.: William Walter Garland, 48, of Morpeth, was sentenced to three months' gaol in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smoke Pall Over State From Fires
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Monday: Smoke shrouded a blazing sun over most of New South Wales today, although Forestry Commission officers said fires' were "more or less" under control…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Vacant Allotment
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 November 1951 · page 2
The Leeton Fire Brigade was called out yesterday afternoon, when a fire broke out in a vacant allotment in Acacia Avenue, near the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Annual Meeting of Bush Fire Brigade New Equipment Obtained
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 November 1951 · page 2
There was a record attendance at last night's meeting of the Cootamundra Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Firebugs started 23 fires
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Firebugs deliberately started 23 forest fires from July to October, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£50,000 Sheep Loss in Fire
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Five thousand sheep, valued at £50,000, were lost in the disastrous bushfires in the Wee Waa district. The fires devastated 100,-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Battle to Save Town From Fire Epic Struggle in Blue Mountains
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 November 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday—Firefighters saved the Blue Mountains town of Wentworth Falls being ravaged by bush fire late…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Bushfire Danger
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1951 · page 2
The vast bushfires which have devastated areas of this State that are greater in extent than sev-eral European countries, should serve as a beacon light to people in Riverina, which has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News Tumbarumba Bush Fire Brigade
Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 15 November 1951 · page 2
A meeting to reform the Tumbarumba Bush Fire Brigade was to have been held at the Council Chambers last Friday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Corobimilla Bush Fire Brigade Office-Bearers Elected
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 15 November 1951 · page 1
At the annual meeting of the Corobimilla Bush Fire Brigade held recently the following office-bearers were elected:…
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