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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 166

SUN Readers Say Fire prohibition

The Sun · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 11

Prohibitions of picnic fire during dangerous bushfire periods should be for a season. Present system of…

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Heavy Losses by Fire at Port Lincoln

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 18

ADELAIDE.—Heavy fire losses have occurred in the Port Lincoln district, on Eyres Peninsula, and other places, particularly at Strathalbyn, and should hot weather continue we can expect further…

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Forestry Commission, Graziers on Fire Control Graziers Advocate [?] Controlled Burning [?]

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 14

TWO graziers joined this week in advocating controlled burning of forest floors during safe periods as a fire protection measure. They are Messrs. P. A…

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Bushfire Victims Penalised

The Land · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 11

Sir. — I do not think the public realises how great the loss of production will be on properties proclaimed…

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Self-help plan in bushfires Survey by Fire Board

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 5

The Board of Fire Commissioners has drawn up a "self help" fire fighting plan for the Blue Mountains…

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Small Fire at Canterbury

The Sun · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 12

After the third Ashbury Mixed Stakes at Canterbury today a small fire broke out alongside…

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Pure Fire at Short Price

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 21

MELBOURNE, Fri. -- Bookmakers today made two-year-old Pure Fire a hot odds-on favorite to tomorrow's First Kingston Stakes (5f.) at…

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Melbourne Races Scorching Finish By Pure Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Sat.-- . Big punters at Caulfleld had many anxious moments before they saw…

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Melbourne Races Scorching Finish By Pure Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sat.-- Big punters at Caulfield had many anxious moments before they saw…

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Melbourne Races Scorching Finish By Pure Fire

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sat.-- Big punters at Caulfield had many anxious moments before they saw…

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Pure Fire Had Backers Hot Before Close Win

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Big punters at Caulfield had many anxious moments before they saw the number of Pure Fire, at long odds-on, hoisted to the top. of the judge's frame after a photo-finish in the First Kingston Stakes…

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Pure Fire Had Backers Hot Before Close Win

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Big punters at Caulfield had many anxious moments before they saw the number of Pure Fire, at long odds-on, hoisted to the top. of the judge's frame after a photo-finish in the First Kingston Stakes…

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True Crime the Playboy Who Played with Fire Circumstantial evidence pointed to the murdered man's friend as the killer

The World's News · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 26

CIRCUMSTANTIAL evidence sometimes convicts a cunning crook, who might otherwise have escaped. But it can also lead to…

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Bushfire Danger High To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 7

Hot winds are likely to cause extremely dangerous bushfire conditions in most of New…

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"Herald" Saturday Magazine The Miracle That Follows A Bushfire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 8

IN the last two or three weeks thousands of acres of bushland round Sydney and on the Blue…

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Woman Dies in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 January 1952 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sat.--Mrs. Sarah Harris, 60, was burned to death at her home in Adelaide today…

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Six Burnt In Toronto Launch Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 January 1952 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday. —Two men and four children were burnt to-day after an explosion in a…

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7 burned in launch explosion Clothing on fire

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 January 1952 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Sat.--Two men and five boys were Burned when a launch engine exploded on Lake Macquarie this afternoon…

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Huge Plunge on 2-Y.-o. Pure Fire

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1952 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Sat.—In one of the most sensational cash plunges ever known on Caulfield course, an unknown punter today stuck £23,000 on Pure Fire in the first stanza…

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Acute bush fire danger in Vic

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- A week of dry weather, capped by scorching century heat…

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