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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1951

3,866 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 194

New Red China move for Korea talks Condition for Cease-fire

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--United Notions reports soy Communist Chino is willing to accept the. Asian-Arab proposal for an…

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Inflation "Raging Like Bushfire:" Retailers' Concern

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1951 · page 4

The president of the Retail Traders' Association of New South Wales, Mr. Ashley Buckingham, said last night that inflation in Australia was now "raging like a bushfire"…

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Escape From Boat Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

After a 32-foot sloop was gutted by fire more than a mile from shore this morning, three crew men had to swim through raging seas for an hour before they struggled to safety at Lion Island, off…

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Escape From Boat Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 3

After a 32-foot sloop was gutted by fire more than a mile from shore this morning, three crew men had to swim through raging seas for an hour before they struggled to safety at Lion Island, off…

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Escape From Boat Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

After a 32-foot sloop was gutted by fire more than a mile from shore this morning, three crew men had to swim through raging seas for an hour before they struggled to…

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Escape From Boat Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

After a 32- foot sloop was gutted by fire more than a mile from shore this morning, three crew men had to swim through raging seas for an hour before they struggled to safety at…

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Escape From Boat Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 3

After a 32-foot sloop was gutted by fire more than a mile from shore this morning, three crew men had to swim through raging seas for an hour before they struggled to safety at Lion Island, off…

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Escape From Boat Blaze

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 1

After a 32-foot sloop was gutted by fire more than a mile from shore this morning, three crew men had to swim through raging seas for an hour before they struggled to safety at Lion Island, off…

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Fires in Mines Solve Problem

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 5

LONDON.--Burning in Britain today are two underground fires producing gas. By the middle of 1952 there will be…

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£900 Fire at Bakery

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 11

ADELAIDE, Saturday.-- About £9000 worth of damage was caused in a fire which swept through…

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£9000 Fire at Bakery

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 10

ADELAIDE, Saturday.-- About £9000 worth of damage was caused in a fire which swept through…

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Sloop Gutted by Fire; Tough Swim

Truth · Sunday 28 January 1951 · page 32

Detectives are investigating the cause of a fire which gutted a 32-foot sloop off Lion Island yesterday…

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Fire Burns Out Yacht: Crew Saved

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 28 January 1951 · page 1

Fire destroyed the 32foot auxiliary yacht Little Women yesterday while it was being sailed from Palm…

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Fire Destroys Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 4

Fire destroyed a weatherboard cottage at 5 Loftus St., Narrabeen shortly after 1 p.m. today…

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Fire Destroys Home

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 4

Fire destroyed a weatherboard cottage at 5 Loftus St., Narrabeen shortly after 1 p.m. today…

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Nsw Divorce Provision Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 13

CANBERRA, Monday.-- Adultery alone should not be a sure ground for divorce in New South Wales, said Mr…

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Nsw Divorce Provision Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 13

CANBERRA, Monday. -- Adultery alone should not be a sure ground for divorce in New South Wales, said Mr…

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S.A. Premier in danger from bushfire

The Sun · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday. -- Trapped between two walls of flame in a bushfire at Cherryville this morning, the…

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Bushfires out of hand

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Sun.--Bushfires got out of hand today in the Lenswood area, east of Adelaide…

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Victorian Fire Peril

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. A State-wide warning acute bushfire danger as been issued by…

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