Grim picture painted of N.S.W conditions in graziers' report Drought, fires, stock losses
Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 December 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Sunday: Bushfires, drought conditions and heavy stock losses in some districts are part of the grim picture painted by the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia in a report on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fire Breaks Out in Junee Behind Business Houses in Broadway
Junee Southern Cross · Monday 17 December 1951 · page 8
A grass fire broke out in Broadway just on lunch time to-day, at the rear of business premises near Mr. R. Lane's and Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Protection in the Snowy Mountains Catchments Minister Appeals for Co-operation
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 December 1951 · page 2
Action to formulate a definite fire protection scheme for the Snowy Mountains group of catchments is proceedings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cease-fire Talks U.N. Concession of Inspection of P.O.W. Camps
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 December 1951 · page 1
TOKIO, Monday —With only ten days remaining before the provisional cease-fire in Korea expires, little progress was made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Danger—firebreaks
The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 1
Lockhart Shire Councillors are very concerned that some persons have not yet constructed firebreaks as required and unless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Back Yard Blaze Caused Fire Alarm
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 2
A shed built of wood and hessian which a number of children were playing in at the rear of a block of flats in Cedar Street on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fires rage in Blue Mountains
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: Many homes were threatened to-day by a bushfire which swept on a five mile front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire equipment money
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 5
SYDNEY, Monday: All money allocated this year for the purpose of fire-fighting equipment had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →3500 homeless in fire
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 1
TOKYO, Monday (A.A.P. Reuter): Nearly 3500 persons were left homeless when fire destroyed 800 homes and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigade Called Out
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 2
Wagga Fire Brigade answered a false alarm at 8 o'clock last night at the intersection of Kincaid and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Likely Extension of Fire Ban
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday,—If the prohibition against the lighting of open-air fires is extended over the christmas and New Year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Euroley Disaster Averted
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 2
A fire that broke out at Euroley last Thursday in a stubble paddock, threatened to develop into a disastrous conflagration, but was subdued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extension of fire ban likely
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday: If the prohibition against the lighting of open-air fires is extended over the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lit fire, Without Permit, and it got Away Defendant Fined
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 2
John Thomas Davenport was charged at the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, before Mr. K. Smith, S.M., with lighting a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bushfire Map Being Prepared for Riverina Area
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 2
The Wagga branch of the Forestry Commission is preparing a detailed fire organisation map for distribution to the general public, the Forestry Officer (Mr. B. U. Byles) said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Houses Safeguarded Against Bush Fires
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 December 1951 · page 4
A few years ago G. J. Barrow, an officer of the C.S.I.R.O., made an important discovery while investigating the disastrous bush…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Menace Beekeeping Valuable Flora Destroyed
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 December 1951 · page 2
"The recent disastrous bush fires in many country districts have caused serious and extensive damage to honey-producing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Bush Fire Near Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 December 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday: High winds late tonight fanned a gigantic bushfire on a 10-mile front from Richmond to St. Mary's. Unofficial reports said that several homes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lightning Started Bush Fire. Murrulebale Loses 800 Acres Grass Land
Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 19 December 1951 · page 4
A severe streak of lightning started a bush fire on Murrulebale Station yesterday afternoon which ultimately burned out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Destroys Brick Works
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 December 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Fires today destroyed the Austral Brickworks in Princes Highway, St. Peter's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →