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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 166

26 Homes Now Lost in Wagga Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 3

Scrub and grass fires were still burning in the Holbrook district, south of Wagga, last night. Since Thursday they have destroyed…

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Threat to Food Supplies Grave Aftermath Of Fires

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 2

Shortages of practically all basic foods threate tithe State because of the disastrous bush fires and drought that have devastated…

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Disease Fear In Fire Area

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 2

Pestilence is feared in the wake of the disastrous bushfires which. have swept through huge areas of southern New South Wales in the past five days…

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Disease Feared in Fire District

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 5

Melbourne, Mon.--Residents of the Murray River township off Walwa fear an outbreak off typhoid as an aftermath off the bushfires…

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Fire Puts Mine Out of Action

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 5

A bushfire yesterday put the Lithgow State mine out of action, causing a loss of 1250…

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Fire Threat to Big N.z. Forest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. --Bushfires are threatening New Zealand's biggest stand of native…

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Fire Threat to Big N.z. Forest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. --Bushfires are threatening New Zealand's biggest stand of native…

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Fire Threat to Big N.z. Forest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. --Bushfires are threatening New Zealand's biggest stand of native…

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Fire Threat to Big N.z. Forest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. --Bushfires are threatening New Zealand's biggest stand of native…

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Fire Threat to Big N.z. Forest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. --Bushfires are threatening New Zealand's biggest stand of native…

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Fire Threat to Big N.z. Forest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 18

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. --Bushfires are threatening New Zealand's biggest stand of native…

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Meat Shortage to Follow Bushfires Huge stock losses in bushfires will mean an autumn and winter meat shortage for Sydney

The Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 2

Trade. authorities and graziers said today price increases would be inevitable…

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Riverina Towns in Peril Again Bushfires raging out of control

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 5

WAGGA, Mon.--A new bushfire tonight again threatened towns and settlements east and South-east of Wagga, Police said towns and settlements threatened included…

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Bushfire Body May Seek Funds

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 19

The Bushfires' Relief Committee met in Sydney this morning to consider reports from…

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Fear of Pestilence in Bushfire Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 9

Farmers fear that pestilence may follow disastrous bushfires which have swept through vast areas of southern New South Wales in the past five days. Thousands of rotting…

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Bushfire Body May Seek Funds

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 16

The Bushfires' Relief Committee met in Sydney this morning to consider reports from…

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Fear of Pestilence in Bushfire Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 9

Farmers fear that pestilence may follow disastrous bushfires which have swept through vast areas of southern New South Wales in the past five days. Thousands of rotting…

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Fear of Pestilence in Bushfire Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 9

Farmers fear that pestilence may follow disastrous bushfires which have swept through vast areas of southern New South Wales in the past five days. Thousands of rotting…

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Fear of Pestilence in Bushfire Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 9

Farmers fear that pestilence may follow disastrous bushfires which have swept through vast areas of southern New South Wales in the past five days. Thousands of rotting…

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Fear of Pestilence in Bushfire Areas

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 9

Farmers fear that pestilence may follow disastrous bushfires which have swept through vast areas of southern New South Wales in the past five days. Thousands of rotting…

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