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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1953

2,850 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 143

Springwood Fire Auxiliary

Nepean Times · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 8

Next meeting of the Springwood Bushfire Brigade Auxiliary will be held in the School of Arts, Springwood, next Tuesday,…

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Probe Into £100,000 BLAZE Coroner Commits Man (21)

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 14

A 21 - years - old invalid pensioner had admitted lighting matches at the scene…

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Probe Into £100,000 BLAZE Coroner Commits Man (21)

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 14

A 21 - years - old invalid pensioner had admitted lighting matches at the scene…

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Probe Into £100,Ooo Blaze Coroner Commits Man (21)

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 14

A 21-years-old invalid pensioner had admitted lighting matches at the scene…

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Thrills of forest fire

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 22

THE rough and tumble life of a logging camp is the background for "The…

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£100,000 Fire: Man for Trial

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 14

A 21-years-old invalid pensioner had admitted lighting Matches at the scene of a £100,000 fire,…

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£100,000 Fire: Man for Trial

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 14

A 21-years-old invalid pensioner had admitted lighting matches at the scene of a £100,000 fire,…

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Surprise Liquid Fire Rider Queenslander Takes Mount

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 36

Queensland jockey J. Standfield is a surprise engagement for Liquid Fire in the six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Bob Easton, trainer of…

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Surprise Liquid Fire Rider Queensland Takes Mount

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 36

Queensland jockey J. Standfield is a surprise engagement for Liquid Fire in the six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Bob Eastion. trainer of…

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Surprise Liquid Fire Rider Queenslander Takes Mount

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 36

Queensland jockey J. Standfield is a surprise engagement for Liquid Fire in the six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Bob Easton, trainer of…

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Surprise Liquid Fire Rider Queenslander Takes Mount

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 36

Queensland jockey J. Standfield is a surprise engagement for Liquid Fire in the six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Bob Easton, trainer of…

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Surprise Liquid Fire Rider Queenslander Takes Mount

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 36

Queensland jockey J. Standfield is a surprise engagement for Liquid Fire in the six furlongs Challenge Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Bob Easton, trainer of…

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20,000 Homeless After Huge Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 3

RANGOON, Fri. (Extel). --Five persons were killed and 20,000 made homeless, yesterday when Rangoon's…

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20,000 Homeless After Huge Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 3

RANGOON, Fri.(Extel).--Five persons were killed and 20,000 made homeless s yesterday when Raiiehnn's…

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20,000 Homeless After Huge Fire

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 3

RANGOON, Fri. (Extel). --Five persons were killed and 20,000 made homeless yesterday when Rangoon's…

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A.B.C. fires all its guns for Australia Day Neil Murray's Radio Round-up

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 10

If, after Monday, radio listeners don't realise the significance of Australia Day, it won't be the fault of the ABC, because never previously has it lined up such a…

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Stories From the Courts Phone call gave vital fire clue

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 13

An anonymous telephone call had led detectives to the cause of a £100,000 Sydney fire, police told the City Coroner (Mr. Forrest, S.M.)…

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Fire destroys club's fleet

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Fri.--A fire early today destroyed the fleet of the Lake Colac Rowing Club…

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Blaze Of Blue

Truth · Sunday 25 January 1953 · page 26

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Blue Aura won her first race when she took out the Second Division of the Niddrie Handicap at Moonee Valley today and gave her owner, Athol…

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Deserted Races to Fight Fire

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 25 January 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Hundreds of farmers rushed from the Ararat race meeting at 2 o'clock this afternoon without waiting for the result of a race just run…

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