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Fires & bushfires, 1952

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Pure Fire Just Beats Deep River

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 10

Classy Victorian colt, Pure Fire, ridden by W. Williamson, beat Delta's 6000 guineas brother,…

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Pure Fire Scorches Past Deep River in Hot Finish

The Sun · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 10

With a great finishing run Pure Fire (54) beat Deep River (72) by a long neck in the AJC Sires Produce Stakes today, with Ocean Spray (661) half a length away third. Pure Fire was a…

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Pure Fire Again Downs Deep River Victorian Colt Promising Type

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 12

Classy Victorian colt Pure Fire (54), ridden by W. Williamson, beat Delta's 6000 gns. brother, Deep River (72) nicely in the Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick today, with rank outsider Ocean Spray (661) a handy third…

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Vic. Colt Stable Hope Pure Fire chosen for Sires' Produce

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 13

Leading Melbourne trainer F. W. Hoysted may win a race at Randwick today with the only horse he has sent to Sydney for the autumn meeting…

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Pure Fire Again Downs Deep River Victorian Colt Promising Type

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 12

Classy Victorian colt Pure Fire (54), ridden by W. Williamson, beat Deta's 6000 guineas brother, Deep River (72) nicely in the Sires' Produce Stakes at Randwick today, with rank outsider Ocean Spray (661) a hand ythird…

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Racecourse Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 April 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday. —Firemen prevented a fire gaining a hold in the old Members' Stand at…

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Pure Fire Aims At Double

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 April 1952 · page 3

Brilliant Melbourne colt Pure Fire, winner of the A.J.C. Sires' Produce Stakes, at Randwick yesterday, will try to complete the double in the Champagne Stakes. Pure Fire is trained by F…

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Pure Fire may complete another treble for veteran trainer

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 April 1952 · page 14

Veteran Melbourne trainer F. W. Hoysted hopes to win the same treble with Pure Fire as he won with True Course. The treble is the V.R.C. Sires' Produce…

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Favorite scores Pure Fire rates top colt of the season

The Sun · Sunday 13 April 1952 · page 18

PURE FIRE proved himself the best colt of the season by winning the AJC Sires Produce Stakes at Randwick yesterday. In eight starts he has…

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Pure Fire Is Pure Gold Victorian Colt In Gallant On-The-Post Win

Truth · Sunday 13 April 1952 · page 14

Ace Victorian colt, Pure Fire, completely vindicated the judgment of experts who rate him the best two-year-old in Australia after his slashing win over Deep River and Ocean Spray in yesterday's Sires'…

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Pure Fire misses Champagne Stakes

The Sun · Monday 14 April 1952 · page 14

AJC Sires' Produce Stakes winner Pure Fire will not run in the Champagne Stakes at Randwick…

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Police Fire on Tunis Rioters

The Sun · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 7

TUNIS, Tuesday.--Police yesterday opened fire on demonstrators and injured three…

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Wollongong fire leads to arrest

The Sun · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.-- Men and women using garden hoses helped the fire…

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P.s. Union Ballot Under Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 12

Alleging irregularity in conduct of a ballot, a delegate at the NSW Public Service Association's annual conference today challenged validity of the poll…

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Fire Tests of Wood-framed Walls with Asbestos-cement Facings. American Report

Construction · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 9

Fire resistance data on asbestos-cement shingles and wall facings become increasingly significant as the demand grows for low or…

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Council Jottings. . Shire Clark’s Report on Finance for Bush Fire Brigades

The Observer · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 1

At the Bush Fire Convention held on Sunday, 3rd February, the Council was asked to investigate the possibility of raising the…

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Fires May Raze Port

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 7

TOKIO, Fri. (B.U.P.). -- Japan's biggest postwar fire threatens to destroy the seaport of…

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Fires May Raze Port

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 7

TOKIO, Fri. (B.U.P.). -- Japan's biggest postwar fire threatens to destroy the seaport of…

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Lucerne Mill Fire

The Land · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 34

A recent fire at the large lucerne meal mill owned by Mr. Hunter Hag on, of Greendale, Canowindra,…

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Linseed Oil Plant Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 18

Fire destroyed a "cooking plant" at Harold Meggitt Ltd., linseed oil manufacturers, Mills…

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