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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1953

2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 143

Pure Fire's good work

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 34

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Pure. Fire, the good sprinter in Fred Hoysted's stables at…

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Man, Started Fire, Held Insane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 5

A man who, it was alleged, had started a fire which caused £100,000 damage at Pyrmont was found to be…

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Match Interests Come Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 20

LONDON, Thursday (Kemsley).--A Government Blue Book yesterday attacked the British…

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Match Interests Come Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 20

LONDON, Thursday (Kemsley).--A Government Blue Book yesterday attacked the British…

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Match Interests Come Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 20

LONDON, Thursday (Kemsley).--A Government Blue Book yesterday attacked the British…

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'Fire Got Away' Says Grazier

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 8

WAGGA, Thurs. --A grazier who helped to burn off a firebreak near a railway line on January 22, 1952, said today the temperature at his home that afternoon was 115 degrees…

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'Fire Got Away' Says Grazier

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 8

WAGGA, Thurs.--A grazier who helped to burn off a firebreak near a railway line on January 22, 1952, said today the temperature at his home that afternoon was 115 degrees…

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Match Interests Come Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 20

LONDON, Thursday (Kemsley).--A Government Blue Book yesterday attacked the British…

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'Fire Got Away' Says Grazier

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 8

WAGGA, Thurs.--A grazier who helped to burn off a firebreak near a railway line, on January 22, 1952, said today the temperature at his home that afternoon was 115 degrees…

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Match Interests Come Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 20

LONDON, Thursday (Kemsley).--A Government Blue Book yesterday attacked the British…

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Match Interests Come Under Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 20

LONDON, Thursday (Kemsley). --A Government Blue Book yesterday attacked the British…

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In the Law Courts Yesterday Big Fire Caused by 'Insane' Man

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 15

A Quarter Sessions jury yesterday deemed insane a man who caused a £100,000 fire at Pyrmont. The man is John Hanrahan Petterson,…

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Hearing Of Riverina Bushfires Claim

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 5

WAGGA, Wednesday.— Mr. Justice Herron at a special sitting of the Supreme Court in Wagga…

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Egyptians Fire on U.k. Water Plant

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 3

CAIRO,Fri. (B.U.P., A.P., Extel).-- Egyptians yesterday opened fire on a British water filtration plant at Kafr Abdon, near Suez…

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Egyptians Fire on U.k. Water Plant

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 3

CAIRO, Fri. (B.U.P., A.P., Extel).-- Egyptians yesterday opened fire on a British water filtration plant at Kafr Abdou, near Suez…

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Egyptians Fire on U.k. Water Plant

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 3

CAIRO, Fri. (B.U.P., A.P., Extel).--Egyptians yesterday opened fire on a British water filtration plant at Kafr Abdou, near Suez…

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Egyptians Fire on U.k. Water Plant

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 3

CAIRO, Fri. (B.U.P., A.P., Extel).-- Egyptians yesterday opened fire on a British water filtration plant at Kafr Abdou, near Suez…

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Hearing On Riverina Bushfire Writs Begin

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 1

MR. JUSTICE HERRON, at a special sitting of the Supreme Court in Wagga this week, heard evidence on the first of about 404 writs issued by, landholders and others claiming damages against the N.S.W. Railways Commissioner…

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Mother Couldn't Save Child in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 May 1953 · page 3

A frantic mother tried to break into a blazing barn in which her five-years-old daughter was trapped near Bega yesterday…

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£20,000 Fire At Balmain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1953 · page 5

Fire yesterday morning destroyed a boatshed and furniture factory in Broderick Street, Balmain…

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