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Fires & bushfires, 1951

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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