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Fires & bushfires, 1953

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BUSHfIRE Committee Chairman: Fire Did Not Come From Inside Break Wagga Hearing Continues

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 2

N.S.W. Bushfire Committee chairman Harold Ernest Messer yesterday told the Supreme Court in Wagga that he did not agree that the fire outside the northern break 'on the Westby—The Rock line on January 22 "came from the fire…

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Lockhart Shire Bushfire Control Officer speaks his mind on last season's experiences

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1953 · page 2

Although comments about bush fire control may be considered unseasonable at this time of the year many of our readers will, it…

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Fire Lit on First Floor Caused Fire on Second Floor Unusual Outbreak In Junee Hotel

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 27 May 1953 · page 4

A fire broke out at the Loftus Hotel in Junee on Saturday last through a most unusual set of circumstances…

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Lucky to Hear Fire Crackling Patent Fireplace Overheated Timber

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 27 May 1953 · page 1

No-one will ever know, bow lucky Mr. and Mrs. Stan Dixon were on Monday evening last that their home in…

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Witnesses Claim Mystery Surrounded Bushfire

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1953 · page 2

In the Supreme Court in Wagga yesterday, two witnesses agreed that mystery surrounded the couse of the fire on the Westby—The Rock railway line on…

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Police fire at suspects

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Ten shots were fired by police at four suspected thieves in Sunshine early…

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Wagga Hearing of Bushfire Claim May End Today

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1953 · page 2

It is expected that the action for damages which is being heard in the Supreme Court in Wagga on behalf of the Australian Woolbrokers and Produce…

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Electrical Fault Caused Car Fire

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 1

From police reports submitted to the District Coroner (Mr. M. L. Kingdon) there is no doubt whatever that the fire which badly damaged, on…

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Bushfire Hearing Adjourned to Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1953 · page 2

Mr. Justice Herron yesterday ordered the balance of the hearing of an action for damages or the Supreme Court in Wagga to Sydney for counsel's addresses…

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Gasworks Fire

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 June 1953 · page 2

The plant superintendent at the Wagga City Gasworks (Mr. George Swinton) received minor burns to the…

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Fire Works Display

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 1

A magnificent fireworks display concluded the civic functions in Gundagai last Tuesday. Carberry Park…

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Fire Lit on First Floor Causes Fire on Second Floor Unusual Outbreak In Junee Hotel

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 6

A fire broke out at the Loftus Hotel in Junee on Saturday last through a most unusual set of circumstances…

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Two Girls Perish in House Fire Unknown Man Saves Rest of Family

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 June 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday — Two young sisters were incinerated when their home was destroyed by fire at Shelley, near the N.S.W.-Victorian border, early today…

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Fire and Explosion in Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Fire and an explosion caused more than £10,000 damage to a metal refining factory at Artarmon…

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2 Children Die in Fire 6 others rescued

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Two young children were burnt to death when fire destroyed…

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Cease-fire Line Now Being Established South Korean Attitude Only Hitch Totruce

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 1

TOKIO, Tuesday — Allied and Communist officers today made plans for signing the Korean armistice after ironing out administrative matters, such as the mapping of the cease-fire line…

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South Korean Attitude No Bar to Cease-fire Pres. Rhee May Fly to Washington

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 June 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wednesday — Although Allied and Communist negotiators are putting the finishing touches to the nearly complete armistice, some feeling developed in Washington that the…

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Fire Cuts Phone Lines Interstate Services Disrupted

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 11 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday — A fire today partly destroyed Glenfield Railway Station and burnt…

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Nuns Prevent House Being Destroyed by Fire

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 June 1953 · page 1

The Gundagai Sisters of Mercy, by forming a bucket brigade, prevented a house opposite their Convent from being…

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3-Year-old Pure Fire Is Favorite

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 June 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Favorite for the Doomben Ten Thousand, Pure Fire, a three-year-old, has received 8.11 for the Ten Thousand and 8.8 for the Doomben…

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