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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

653 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 33

Big Burmese Fire

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 2

RANGOON, Thursday: A b[?] fire has destroyed 1500 hours and caused damage estimate[?] at £750,000 in Myaungms…

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Mitchell Shire Move For Fire=Fighting Levy

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 2

A recommendation that bush fire-fighting brigades be required to pay 25 per cent costs of all new equipment will be introduced at the forthcoming N.S.W. Shires' Association annual conference by the…

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Fire Gutted Three Storey Building. Spectacular Blaze at Box Hill Grain Mill

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Damage estimated at more than £50,000 was caused by a fire which gutted a three-storey grain mill at Box…

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Big Melbourne Fire Damage to Grain Mill

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday — Damage estimated at more than £50,000 was caused by a huge fire which gutted a three-storey…

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Big Melbourne Fire Loss

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday: A fire caused an estimated £50,000 worth of damage when it swept through a three-storied grain…

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Fire at Public School last night

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 2

The Fire Brigade was called to the Public School at 10.10 last night, to extinguish a blaze that had been caused by the leaving on of an electric…

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Bush Fire Gear on Display at Show. Information Bureau to Be Set Up at "Royal"

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 5

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

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Bush Fire Equipment

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1951 · 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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Grass Fire

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 6

A grass fire broke out on the property of Mr. C. B. Heinecke, Adelong Road, on Tuesday morning. Good work by the local…

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Goulburn Baby Dies As Crowd Watches Fire

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 1

A crowd which watched fire destroy a cottage at North Goulburn yesterday afternoon was unaware that…

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Fire at Fivebough

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 2

A fire broke out on Mr. C. G. S. Fraser's property at Fivebough on Sunday afternoon last and quickly spread to adjoining properties…

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Broke Arm in Accident To-day. Engine Back-fires, Handle Hit District Resident

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 21 March 1951 · page 8

Fifteen year Old Noel Lewin, son of Mr. and Mrs, W. Lewin, well known Old Junee residents, had his arm broken in an accident…

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Children Die in Blaze

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 1

OTTAWA, Wednesday: Seven children ranging in age from one year to 15 were burned to death when fire destroyed a…

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Allegedly Lit Fire Without Permit

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 4

The Demondrille Shire Council will proceed to prosecution against a Galong grazier who lit a fie without a permit,…

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Harden C.p. Want Policy Changed Closer Settlement Under Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 2

A motion seeking the review of the country, Party's policy in regard to land settlement will be sent down from the Harden…

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Big Fires in Country Districts

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Fires destroyed buildings in three country districts last night. Flames gutted the…

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Bush Fires in Vic. Serious Stock Losses and Heavy Damage

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday — Bush fires raging in broken line from Eastern Victoria almost to the South Australian…

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Grass, Rubbish Fires in Wagga Areas

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 2

A number of fires were reported in and around Wagga yesterday but they were soon brought under control. Fires were reported on the. Lake Albert Road,…

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Fire at Sawmill Some Valuable Plant Destroyed

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 8

On Saturday last a fire practically destroyed Bonola's sawmill at Urana. Some employees were burning a…

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North Wind Whips Fires in Victoria

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 March 1951 · page 1

A PIERCE NORTH WIND drove fire through the scrub at Gembrook (Vic.) on Monday while fire-fighters worked desperately to bring it under control. Burning sawdust was carried through the air by the wind from this 30ft.-high pile, the…

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