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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1948

2,253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 113

Girl Stole, Lit Fire, Court Told

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 3

A former Sunday school teacher's weakness for pretty clothes led her to steal from her employer…

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Anti-Fire Foam Test On Plane

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 7

Civil Aviation Department engineers deliberately tried to set fire to a plane yesterday morning…

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Girl Stole, Lit Fire, Court Told

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 2

A former Sunday school teacher's weakness for pretty clothes led her to steal from her employer…

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Cease-fire in Indonesia Republicans, Dutch Sign Agreement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 3

BATAVIA, January 18 (A.A.P.Reuters).—Dutch and Indonesian Republican delegates yesterday signed an agreement calling for a…

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Bushfire Peril In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Hundreds of residents are fighting two bush fires which, fanned by a strong…

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Bushfire Peril In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Hundreds of resident's are fighting two bush fires which, fanned by a strong…

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Bushfire Peril In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Hundreds of residents are fighting two bush fires which, fanned by a strong…

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Curator Perishes in Fire at Oval

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Norman Raymond House (32), Punt Rd., Richmond, was burned to death in a scrub fire…

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Protest Against Fire Levy

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 9

Holroyd Council will protest to the Chief Secretary against the increase in its contribution to the Fire Board…

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WA “Liberals” Delay Fire Insurance

Tribune · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 3

PERTH.—The Farmers’ Weekly, official organ of the farmers’ Union, attacks the “Liberal” State Government for failing to provide…

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Hollywood Under Fire From Star

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. -- Hollywood producers just grind out the same old hackneyed…

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Hollywood Under Fire From Star

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wednesday. -- Hollywood producers just grind out the same old hackneyed…

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Bush Fire In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- More than 50 men are still fighting a large bush fire which is raging through scrub…

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Bush Fire In Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- More than 50 men are still fighting a large bush fire which is raging through scrub…

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Education Unesco Under Fire

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 8

"If the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation persists in ignoring the value of religion in its…

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Fire in Timber for Newsprint

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 2

HOBART, Thursday. -- The hot weather throughout Tasmania has caused a serious fire hazard and outbreaks in…

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£23,800 Claim in Ship Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Supreme Court writs claiming damages totalling £23,800 were issued in Melbourne…

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Whirlwind Causes Big Fire In West

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

Three homesteads were threatened by a disastrous fire which was sweeping rapidly last night through grass and spinifex country on a six-mile front 40 miles south-west of Broken Hill…

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Fire death inquest

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 3

WEST WYALONG, Friday. --Inquest on Hugh McKnight, 72, caretaker, who was burned to death in the golf…

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Hot Blast Inland; Bushfire Menace

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 1

After weeks of cool weather, many parts of central and southern Australia yesterday had their hottest day of the year. In Adelaide the…

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