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Blue Mountains · Fires & bushfires
6 stories in Blue Mountains's papers
Quite naturally big interest was taken by the ratepayers in the opening of the Fire Station in Park street, on Wednesday evening last, by Mr. Chas. Bown, Chairman of the Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A FALSE impression seems to have got hold of a large number of ratepayers in Katoomba touching the usefulness and economic value of the local Fire Brigade, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—If you will grant me space in your paper to ask a few questions about our local Fire Brigade (as local agent for one of the largest Insurance Companies of Australia). I should like to know…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—Ratepayer Simons has placed the community under a deep obligation by his fearless, profound, succinct, but withal, bombastic letter on the Katoomba Fire Brigade. Having read and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Will you permit me to voice the feeling of a large number of householders in Katoomba in saying that it would be desirable that' the Fire Bell should be regarded as sacred to the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Perhaps it is too much to expect to be exempt from the disastrous fires to which other parts of the country are liable, but fires are such a rarity with us that when…
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