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Blue Mountains · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1931

7 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Bush Fires

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 2

Bush fires were raging between Linden and Faulconbridge on Tuesday last. First-class Constable Kent, stationed at Springwood, was in…

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Church State Hospital Appeal Hanging Fire

The Blue Mountain Star · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 7

The State Government allocated a sum of £10,000 to advertise the conjoint Church-State Hospital appeal. The joint secretaries took…

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Fire

Blackheath Beacon · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4

The Blackheath Volunteer Fire Brigade turned out about 8 p.m. on Saturday last to a fire at "Elsinore," Govett Street, and upon arrival the…

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Fire[?]

Blackheath Beacon · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 1

On Sunday night about five p m. the alarm was raised for fire in Kanimbla Street, a cottage owned by Mr. Gallop of Sydney. The local brigade…

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Our Fire Fighters

Blackheath Beacon · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 1

LOOKING over the different organisations in our town, we find one which is a great necessity to the community, and of which…

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Fire

Blackheath Beacon · Friday 27 February 1931 · page 3

At 1.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, first-class Constable Hughes received a call by telephone to a fire at the corner of Wentworth and Sturt Sts…

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Fire!

Blackheath Beacon · Friday 13 March 1931 · page 3

A fire broke out and completely gutted the premises owned by Mr. Ben Johnson, in the Main Street, Blackheath, on Monday morning last…

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