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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1946

2,699 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 135

"Men Start Bushfires" Fern-Gatherers Accused Kuring-gai Chase Ranger's Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 3

PROFESSIONAL fern-gatherers are blamed for starting it fires that have burned out hundreds of acres off bush land in Kuring-gai Chase. The chief ranger (Mr. V. Wallace) alleged today that…

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"Men Start Bushfires" Fern-Gatherers Accused Kuring-gai Chase Ranger's Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 3

PROFESSIONAL fern-gatherers are blamed for starting fires that have burned out hundreds of acres Of bushland in Kuring-gai Chase. The chief ranger (Mr. V. Wallace) aliened today that…

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"Men Start Bushfires" Fern-Gatherers Accused Kuring-gai Chase Ranger's Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 3

PROFESSIONAL fern-gatherers are blamed for starting fires that have burned out hundreds of acres of bush land in Kuring-gai Chase. The chief ranger (Mr. V. Wallace) alleged today that…

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"Men Start Bushfires" Fern-Gatherers Accused Kuring-gai Chase Ranger's Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 3

PROFESSIONAL fern-gatherers are blamed for starting fires that have burned out hundreds of acres of bush land in Kuring-gai Chase. The chief ranger (Mr. V. Wallace) alleged today that…

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"Men Start Bushfires" Fern-Gatherers Accused Kuring-gai Chase Ranger's Charge

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 3

PROFESSIONAL fern-gatherers are blamed for starting fires that have burned but hundreds of acres of bushland in Kuring-gai Chase. The chief ranger (Mr. V. Wallace) aliened today that…

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Town Blackout Follows Fire

The Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 8

BOGGABRI, Tuesday.--Fire destroyed the building and generating power station here to-day…

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Big Kuring-gai Chase Fires Fifty Cottages Endangered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 3

Big fires were burning last night in the Coal and Candle Creek Road area, near Terry's Hills, toward Cottage Point and Duffy's Point. "They are the biggest fires in…

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Chungking Dishonors “Cease Fire” Pledge

Tribune · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 8

HONG KONG.—Although the Chungking Government signed the “cease fire” pledge last month, Kuomintang troops, aided by re-armed Japanese soldiers and aeroplanes, are still waging civil war against the…

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Ship's Magic Eye Warns of Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 7

An electric eye that warns of danger at the slightest sign of smoke is one of the features of the 8000 ton American Vessel, Rattler, now in Sydney Harbor. SITUATED on the bridge, the eye…

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Ship's Magic Eye Warns of Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 7

An electric eye that warns of danger at the slightest sign of smoke is one of the features of the 8000 ton American vessel, Rattler, now in Sydney Harbor. SITUATED on the bridge, the eye…

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Ship's Magic Eye Warns of Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 6

An electric eye that warns of danger at the slightest sign of smoke is one of the features of the 8000 ton American vessel, Rattler, now in Sydney Harbor. SITUATED on the bridge, the eye…

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Ship's Magic Eye Warns of Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 7

An electric eye that warns of danger at the slightest sign of smoke is one of the features of the 8000 ton American vessel, Rattler, now in Sydney Harbor. SITUATED on the bridge, the eye…

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Ship's Magic Eye Warns of Fire

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 7

An electric eye that warns of danger at the slightest Sign of smoke is one of the features of the 8000 ton American vessel, Rattler, now in Sydney Harbor. SITUATED on the bridge, the eye…

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Bushfires Sweep Towards Cottage Point

The Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 1

SWEEPING ALONG the foreshore of Cowan Creek, flames threaten to cross a spur of hills…

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Bushfires Raging In Kuring-gai

The Sun · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 3

Bushfires are devastating large areas of Kuringgai Chase, but the threatened destruction of…

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Bushfire Threat To 40 Cottages

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 5

Bushfires burned fiercely in Kuringgai Chase and at Church Point late last night. Between 40 and 50 cottages, most of…

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Good Rain Required To Quell Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 14

GOOD rain is urgently needed, say Kuring-gai Chase rangers, to help them control the biggest bushfires in the area for seven years. A NEW settlement of 50 cottages…

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Rain Needed to Quell Big Bushfires Forecasts By No Means Promising Rangers Toil in Kuring-gai Area

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 2

GOOD rain is urgently needed, say Kuring-gai Chase rangers, to help them control the biggest bushfires in the area for seven years…

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Good Rain Required To Quell Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 14

GOOD rain is urgently needed, say Kuring-gai Chase rangers, to help them control the biggest bushfires in the area for seven years. A NEW settlement of 50 cottages…

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Good Rain Required To Quell Bushfires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 14

GOOD rain is urgently needed, say Kuring-gai Chase rangers, to help them control the biggest bushfires in the area for seven years. A NEW settlement of 50 cottages…

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