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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 131

Coals of Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 April 1950 · page 5

Aye, the place is big all right, but then, the McGravys were always like…

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Coals of Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 April 1950 · page 5

Aye, the place is big all right, but then, the McGravys were always like…

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Fire In Monastery

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 4

MEMBERS of the community of the Cistercian Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley,…

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NEWS in brief Fire in City Store

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 4

Clouds of smoke filled part of the basement of McDowell's store in…

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News in brief Fire in City Store

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 4

Clouds of smoke filled part of the basement of McDowell's store in…

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NEWS in brief Fire in City Store

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 4

Clouds of smoke filled part of the basement of McDowell's store in…

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NEWS in brief Fire in City Store

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 4

Clouds of smoke filled part of the basement of McDowell' s store in…

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Fire in City Store Basement

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 10

Headquarters fire-brigade went to McDowells' store in George Street yesterday morning when a fire started in the…

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Girl saves 2 children from fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 12

A 13-years-old girl rescued two children from a fire in a hut at Hargrave…

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All Night Fight with Wrecked Train Blaze

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 5

Railway gangers worked through last night to clear the blazing, tangled wreckage of a derailed goods train which blocked the main Western railway line. In the glare of fiercely…

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Australia Under Fire on Tariffs

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 13

GENEVA, Wednesday.--Removal by Australia of its subsidy on nitrate of soda fertiliiser impaired the tariff…

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Police Fire to Halt Car

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--After a police wireless patrol car nearly collided with a car driven by three men, the police…

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Bomb Truck On Fire; Three Hurt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 1

LISMORE, Tuesday.— An Air Force truck spilled a load of bombs and its petrol caught fire when it…

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Fire Captain Honored W. G. Deveson, Merrylands

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 2

A complimentary "smoko" and presentation was tendered to Captain W. G. Deveson in the Masonic Mail Merrylands, on Wednesday night, March 29…

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Britain's War Minister Strachey is under fire This is the man they argue is Red

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 8

BRITAIN'S War Minister, half-bald, tall, slightly paunchy, John Evelyn…

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Boy Starts Huge Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 6

WILMINGTON (Delaware), Thursday. -- An eight-years-old negro boy admitted yesterday that he…

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Boy Starts Huge Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 6

WILMINGTON (Delaware), Thursday. -- An eight-years-old negro boy admitted yesterday that he…

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Big fire in migrant camp

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 5

COWRA, Wed.--The camp director and the nurses of the Cowra Immigration Centre hospital are homeless as the…

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Seven Escape in Plane Fire

The Sun · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 6

HONOLULU, Wednesday.-- A Mars type giant flying-boat on a test flight exploded and caught fire today, after a…

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Fire Captain Honored W. G. Deveson, Merrylands

The Biz · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 5

A complimentary:smoko" and presentation was tendered to Captain W. G. Deveson in the Masonic Hall, Merrylands, on Wednesday night, March 29…

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