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Fires & bushfires, 1950

2,610 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 131

Police Fire at Youths in Car

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- During a 70 m.p.h. chase through South Melbourne streets early today, detectives…

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Police Fire at Youths in Car

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- During a 70 m.p.h. chase through South Melborne Streets early today detectives…

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Police Fire at Youths in Car

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- During a 70 m.p.h. chase through South Melbourne streets early today. detectives…

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England Selects 3rd Test Team Cunliffe Chosen New Fire-Eighth

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 31

Jack Cunliffe, as anticipated, was chosen today in England's team for the third Rugby League Test match on Saturday against Australia on the sodden Sydney Cricket Ground. He is the new five-eighth…

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No lights, no fires, no phone—but plenty of snakes! How Nuns (and 103 orphans) Lived Through Northern Floods

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 6

TO many outsiders the very name, Australia, is synonymous with drought and flood and bushfire. If it isn't…

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POP Quick fire

The Sun · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 7

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Fire belt alarms Minister

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 11

Danger from spontaneous combustion in the "fire belt" area of the northern…

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Last Month: ‘Under Fire’ This Month: ‘Comedy For All’

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 2

Followers of this paper’s monthly serial entitled “N.S.W. Jewish Board of Deputies” will be agreeably surprised to find this week’s…

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Reds fire houses to bar escape-road Grim Battue Fought in Burning Taejon

The Sun · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 1

TOKIO, Friday.--The smoke of battle still hung over fallen Taejon today as US infantry completed a fierce rearguard action. Battalions of the 24th Division took heavy toll of the enemy before withdrawing to new defensive…

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Hoodlums Start Fire in Church

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 3

Hoodlums last night broke into St. Bede?s Church of England, Morgan St., Beverly Hills, and…

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Hoodlums Start Fire in Church

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 3

Hoodlums last night broke into St. Bede's Church of England, Morgan St., Beverly Hills, and…

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Hoodlums Start Fire in Church

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 3

Hoodlums last night broke into St. Bede's Church of England, Morgan St., Beverly Hills, and…

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Hoodlums Start Fire in Church

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 3

Hoodlums last night broke into St. Bede's Church of England, Morgan St., Beverly Hills, and…

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Hoodlums Start Fire in Church

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 3

Hoodlums last, night broke Into St Bede's Church of England, Morgan St., Beverly Hills, and…

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Hoodlums Start Fire in Church

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 3

Hoodlums last night broke into St. Bede's Church of England, Morgan St., Beverly Hills, and…

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Hoodlums Start Fire in Church

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 3

Hoodlums last night broke into St. Bede's Church of England, Morgan St., Beverly Hills, and…

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Blaze causes damage in furniture shop

The Sun · Sunday 23 July 1950 · page 48

Fire slightly damaged the rear portion of the Sutma Furnishing Company's shop in Oxford Street, Paddington,…

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Fire destroys X-ray records

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 July 1950 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- Fire today destroyed the X-ray records of hundreds of R.A.A.F. ex-servicemen awaiting…

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Police Suspect Boys Vandals' Flare Fires Church Pew At Beverly Hills

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 23 July 1950 · page 7

Police were last night working on a theory that fire-damage to a pew in St. Bede's Church of England, at Beverly Hills, was caused by boys who broke in…

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Fire loss at Repat. hospital MELBOURNE, Sat

The Sun · Sunday 23 July 1950 · page 48

FIRE gutted the X-ray department of Heidelberg Repatriation hospital today…

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