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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1952

3,308 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 166

Small Fire at City Markets

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 3

Mr. Don Yip, a produce merchant, put out a blaze among inflammable material at the City Markets…

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Small Fire at City Markets

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 17

Mr. Don Yip, a produce, merchant, put out a blaze among inflammable material at the City Markets…

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Cased Bushfires Can Be Benefits

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 9

Controlled bushfires can benefit pastoral areas, an American professor of geography, Dr. Charles Davis, of the University of Michigan, said in Sydney…

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Caged Bushfires Can Be Benefits

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 9

Controlled bushfires can benefit pastoral areas, an American professor of geography, Dr. Charles Davis, of the University of Michigan, said in Sydney…

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Thousands Missing in Jap Quake, Fires

The Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 5

TOKIO, Wednesday.--Rescuers worked all last night trying to save lives in parts of Hokkaido (northern Japan) devastated by earthquake, tidal waves, landslides and fires…

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Move For Fire Probe

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 3

A move for a Royal Commission on bushfires was foreshadowed in the Legislative…

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Move For Fire Probe

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 3

A move for a Royal Commission on bushfires was foreshadowed in the Legislative…

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Gunboats fire on U.K. ship

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 4

HONGKONG, Tues. -- The British freighter Plymouth Star (1274 tons) today radioed that two unidentified gunboats had fired on her…

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Castlereagh Bush Fire Brigade

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 4

A most successful general and social meeting was held by the Castlereagh branch of the Bush-fire Brigade on February 27, at…

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Bush Fire Brigade Convention

The Observer · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 1

Delegates to the Bush Fire Convention, held in the Council Chambers on February 3rd, recommended several courses of…

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Fines for Lighting Fires

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 1

Several cases of fire-lighting in contravention of prohibition came before Mr A. E. Stonham, S.M., at Penrith Court on 25th…

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Lift Fire At St. Vincent's

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 1

Fire today put out of action the two main lifts at St. Vincent's Hospital. Patients and most of the…

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Lift Fire At St. Vincent's

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 1

Fire today put out of action the two main lifts at St. Vincent's Hospital. Patients and most of the…

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Lift Fire At St. Vincent's

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 11

Fire today put out of action the two main lifts at St. Vincent's Hospital. Patients and most of the…

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Lift Fire At St. Vincent's

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 11

Fire today put out of action the two main lifts at St. Vincent's Hospital. Patients and most of the…

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Lift Fire At St. Vincent's

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 11

Fire today put out of action the two main lifts at St. Vincent's Hospital. Patients and most of the…

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Lit Fire in Danger Period Fairfield Case

The Biz · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 11

First prosecution of its kind from this area took place at Liverpool Court last week, when Petko Neckovich, of Mulgoa Road,…

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Inquiry Sought Into Bushfires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 2

The Leader of the Country Party, Mr. M. F. Bruxner, in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, gave notice of motion for the…

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Appeal for Bush Fire Victims

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 15

AN appeal for household goods, clothing or cash donations, to relieve the distress of Beta residents who…

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Stock, money from Berry for fire victims

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 4

BERRY Better Farming League has launched an appeal to assist bushfire victims on the Far South Coast,…

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