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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

653 stories in Riverina's papers · page 9 of 33

Cost of Maintaining Fire Brigade Figures Submitted To Municipal Council

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 9

The Board of Fire Commissioners submitted a balance sheet to the Junee Municipal Council on Tuesday night last indicating…

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Fire Protection at Wheat Silo. New Main to Go Down Queen Street

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 3

To ensure that the new bulk wheat terminal silo being erected in Junee will have adequate fire protection, it will be encircled by…

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America Opposes Moves in U.n. for Cease-fire Wants to Fight Bic Battle Now Looming

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday (A.A.P.): American high officials here strongly oppose all attempts now being made by various groups of U.N. delegations to…

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Unoccupied House Destroyed by Fire Biggest Blaze at Hurstville

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Firemen searched through the ruins of a gutted Hurstville home this morning, believing that a family…

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Inquiry About Fire Ship is Adjourned

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The inquiry into the alleged attempt to dope Fire Ship was today further adjourned to a date to…

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Wagga People Flee: Kosciusko Hotel Fire £250,000 Damage

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: More than 100 guests and 92 staff members fled to safety in night attire when fire gutted the wooden two-storey Hotel Kosciusko at dawn today…

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Bush Fires Act Penalties for Lighting Fires in Danger Period

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 2

The Leeton and District Progress Association received the following letter addressed to Mr. A. G. Enticknap, M.L.A…

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Kosciusko Hotel Destroyed By Fire £250,000 Damage

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 2

More than 190 guests and [?] stall members fled to safety in night attire when fire gutted the wooden 2[?] Hotel Kosciusko…

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Main Street Trees Are Dying Result of Grass Fire Recently on Area

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 25 April 1951 · page 4

Poplar trees alongside the railway line in Main street are dying in the opinion of Aid. T. Geeson and the Town Clerk (Mr. M. A…

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Fire Brigade Hampered at Ganmain Blaze

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 2

Inability to locate water-main points in the main street because they had been covered over with bitumen resulted in half-an-hour's delay after the local Fire Brigade had been called to a blaze in Ford Street,…

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Rubbish Fire

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 2

A rubbish fire broke out yesterday on the river bank at the rear of the Duke of Kent Hotel. It was extinguished by the Wagga…

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Fire Destroys Town

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 1

TOKYO, Wed. (AAP-Reuter): Fire last night destroyed almost the whole town of Atsumi, a hot-spring resort in Northern Japan…

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Ganmain Fire Store and Stock Badly Damaged Fire Hydrants Unuseable

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 27 April 1951 · page 2

What might have been a very serious fire was discovered at about 12.30 p.m. on Anzac Day at Ganmain, on the business premises…

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Big Oil Fire at South Goulburn £30,000 Damage In Railway Yards

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 April 1951 · page 1

GOULBURN, Friday — At least £30,000 worth of damage was caused to South Goulburn [?]co yards early this morning…

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A.J.C. Stewards Reprimand Sporting Journalist About Fire Ship Article

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Sydney sporting journalist, Lionel Marsden, was reprimanded by the A.J.C. stewards today after an inquiry into an article published in the "Sunday Telegraph"…

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Sudden Wind Change Caused Bush Fire. 120 Acres Grassland Burned on "Panuara"

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 2 May 1951 · page 1

Strenuous efforts were necessary on Monday afternoon last to extinguish a bush fire which destroyed about 120 acres of glass land…

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Costs Far Too Much for Supervision Central Tablelands Scheme Comes Under Fire

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 2 May 1951 · page 6

With the reticulation work on the Central Tablelands water supply scheme slowing down, the Council is spending too much…

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"Magic Fire" Nearly Destroys Opera House

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 1

GENEVA, Wed. (A.A.P.): Technicians in the Geneva Grand Theatre yesterday rehearsed the Magic Fire…

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Hay Town Clerk Under Fire

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 2

At the last meeting of the Hay Municipal Council Ald. A. J. Hill levelled some criticism against the Town Clerk, who he said was letting…

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More Fighting After 'Cease Fire'

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 4

TEL AVIV, Sunday (A.A.P.): Border fighting flared up yesterday morning in the hills north-west of the point where the…

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