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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 74 of 125

Couple lose £200 in fire

The Sun · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 23

A young English couple lost over £200 in a fire which gutted a Housing Commission…

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News in Brief Fires Raze Homes in South Africa

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 15

DURBAN, Thurs. (A.P.). -- The worst bushfires in living memory have devastated homes, crops and timber in Natal. Two natives have been…

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News in Brief Fires Raze Homes in South Africa

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 15

DURBAN, Thurs. (A.P.).--The worst bushfires in living memory have devastated homes, crops and timber in Natal. Two natives have been…

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News in Brief Fires Raze Homes in South Africa

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 15

DURBAN, Thurs. (A.P.).--The worst bushfires in living memory have devastated homes, crops and timber in Natal. Two natives have been…

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Mother in Daring Fire Rescue

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 3

A young mother last night ran twice into her burning home at Maroubra to help rescue six children. The mother is Mrs…

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News in Brief Fires Raze Homes in South Africa

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 15

DURBAN, Thurs. (A.P.).--The worst bushfires in living memory have devastated homes, drops and timber in Natal. Two natives have been…

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News in Brief Fires Raze Homes in South Africa

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 15

DURBAN, Thurs. (A.P.). --The worst bushfires in living memory have devastated homes, crops and timber in Natal. Two natives have been…

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News in Brief Fires Raze Homes in South Africa

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 15

DURBAN, Thurs. (A.P.). -- The worst bushfires in living memory !have devastated homes, crops and. timber in Natal. Two natives have been…

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News in Brief Fires Raze Homes in South Africa

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 15

DURBAN, Thurs. (A.P.). -- The worst bushfires In living memory have devastated homes, crops and timber in Natal. two natives have been…

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Fire Insurance Areas Chamber of Commerce Moves

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 5

A revision of fire insurance areas in Penrith in view of the extension of water service through the years was a matter…

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Pathetic sequel to fire Family's goods all destroyed

Daily Mirror · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 5

A Maroubra couple and their five children, whose weatherboard Housing Commission home was destroyed fire last night, searched at day-break today…

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Burnt-Out Property Husbandry Section Wins Wagga

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 11

The result of the disastrous bushfires of 1952 is reflected in the winning property of the sheep husbandry section in the Wagga district for the 1954 Merino Ewe…

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Blaze on ship

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 6

LIVERPOOL, Fri.-- Fifty firemen wearing special breathing, masks : are: fighting a fire which…

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Blaze on ship

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 5

LIVERPOOL, Fri.-- Fifty -firemen wearing special -breathing masks are fighting a fire which…

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POP Fire water

The Sun · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 24

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Fire Aboard Qantas Plane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Aug. 5 (A.A.P.).—Fire broke out on a Qantas Super-Constellation taxi-ing to the…

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£62,500 Fire Guts Factory

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thurs.--Fire early today destroyed a tarpaulin factory at Wanganui on the…

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Six Die in Whisky Fire

The Sun · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 7

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Six men are believed dead, four are missing, 38 were hurt and nearly…

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Economic Bureau Under Fire From Dairy Bodies

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 3

Three dairy organisations strongly disagreed with some of the judgments and assumptions made by the Commonwealth Bureau of Agricultural Economics in its 1953 dairy survey, according to Mr. R. C. Gibson, general…

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Pensioner dares fire for bird Badly Burned

The Sun · Friday 6 August 1954 · page 3

A 69-year-old war pensioner was badly burned last night trying to rescue his pet love-bird from a blazing flat…

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