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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 125

Games team's boat lost in blaze

The Sun · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 47

VANCOUVER, Tuesday.--A racing shell intended for Australia's Empire Games four oar crew, was destroyed by fire today…

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£100,000 Blaze in City Store

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Fire gutted the premises of Doyle's Free Stores, King St., City,…

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£100,000 Blaze in City Store

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 20

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Fire gutted the premises of Doyle's Free Stores. King St., City,…

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£100,000 loss as blaze guts store

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 26

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Fire gutted the premises of Doyle's Free Stores, King St., City, causing more than £100,000 damage early this morning. The three-storeyed city…

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£100,000 loss as blaze guts store

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 26

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Fire gutted the premises of Doyle's Free Stores, King St., City, causing more than £100,000 damage early this morning. The three-storeyed city…

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£100,000 loss as blaze guts store

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 26

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Fire gutted the premises of Doyle's Free Stores, King St., City, causing more than £100,000 damage early this morning. The three-storeyed city…

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Operator's Fire Save

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 21

A switch operator's alertness today prevented a fire from, spreading in…

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Operator's Fire Save

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 21

A switch operator's alertness today prevented a fire from spreading in…

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Operator's Fire Save

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 2

A switch operator's alertness today prevented a fire from spreading in…

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Operator's Fire Save

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 21

A switch operator's alertness today prevented a fire from spreading in…

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Halted Office Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 9

Quick thinking by a switchgirl stopped a fire in the heart of the city today. Fire damaged the walls and ceiling of the board-room of the Royal Interocean Line…

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Plane's engine catches fire

The Sun · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 18

WASHINGTON. Tuesday.--A Trans-World Airlines Constellation plane made a safe…

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Fire Attempt Fails at School

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 2

Police are investigating a recent attempt to set alight the manual room at Granville Central School…

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'Lies' About Fire, Says Coroner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 6

The City Coroner, Mr. F. L. McNamara, said yesterday that either one or both of the joint owners of a cottage in Manning Road, Double Bay, had lied…

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Fire Service At Airport Criticised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 3

SINGAPORE, July 20 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—A fire officer said to-day that the fire services at Kallang airport were inadequately equipped, organised, and…

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U.S. fire losses higher this year

The Sun · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 26

NEW YORK. Tuesday.--Estimated fire losses in US for the first half of 1954 were more than…

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case fire a victory for peace forces

Tribune · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

The cease fire in Vietnam comes as a glorious victory for the forces fighting for world peace and an equally smashing defeat for the US war-profiteers headed by Foster Dulles…

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Sydney Girls Give Alarm £150,000 fire in store

The Sun · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 28

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A spectacular blaze early today gutted a century-old Melbourne warehouse store, causing damage estimated at £150,000…

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World-wide selection of news... No rejoicing by French at cease-fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 4

HANOI, Tues.--The gunfire has ceased in Indo-China, but there is no rejoicing this side of the armistice line…

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from our foreign correspondents and services Cease-fire "Best We Can Devise"

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 July 1954 · page 5

GENEVA, Wed. -- The Indo- China cease-fire agreements were "the best that our hands could devise," the British…

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