Prevention Of Fire
In a Mayoral Minute to Tuesday evening's meeting of the Gosford Municipal Council, Alderman W. C. Grahame, recommended that, as the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1940
37 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Mountain Blaze
Beginning on Sunday, an extensive bush fire has been blazing on the western side of the Gosford Training School On Monday it spread…
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Gosford Fire Brigade rushed to the Pacific Highway at West Gosford yesterday morning when a bush fire threatened a petrol station near the camping area. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Apple Tree Crashes Kills Fire-fighter
"It is extremely regrettable that a neighborly act in fighting a bush-fire to save property, should have resulted in his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrol Tank Explodes Two Have Narrow Escape In Butcher's Van Fire
A few moments after two men jumped out of a burning motor van. on the Morisset Road, near Wyee, the petrol tank…
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Bushfires raged through dense bush near Somersby during the weekend. Some damage was done to…
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Percy Cole, orchardist, of Calga, was fined £3 and 8/- costs in the Cosford Police Court on Friday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Films for Gosford Theatres "On The Night Of The Fire,"
Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard have done such splendid work on the screen that any new picture in which either appears is always…
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Fierce bushfires did extensive damage at Somersby on Friday. In one case, the home of Mr. F. B. Witherby was threatened. When…
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Erina Shire Council on Monday decided to take no action with regard to a letter from the Peat's Ridge South branch of the…
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Steps are being taken in various parts of the district to form and thoroughly organise volunteer bush fire fighting brigades. Gosford…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Electric Light Pole on Fire
On Tuesday last in Howarth St., Wyong, an electric light pole caught fire. How the fire occurred is not…
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The memory of disastrous bushfires in this district during the summer of 1938-39 is still fresh in the minds of many,…
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Some time between March 7 and March 9, fire destroyed a shed owned by Mr. Grafton John Casey, of Feat's Ridge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kincumber Bush Fire Brigade Meeting Monday Night
A meeting of the Kincumber Bush Fire Brigade will be held at the Kincumber School on Monday night at 8 o'clock…
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Quick action on the part of the Gosford Fire Brigade stopped what might have become a serious fire on Thursday last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BUSHFIRES Royal Show Exhibit
An exhibit of considerable interest to country visitors to the Show in Sydney was found in the Agricultural Hall, where the Bushfires…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bushfire Destroys £800 Cottage Flames Sweep Down From Hills
Valued at £800, the six-roomed weatherboard cottage of Mr. Stephen Michael Kelly, of Popran Creek, was totally destroyed by a bushfire,…
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Damage estimated at £310 was done when fire destroyed a small cottage owned by Mrs. Ella Gertrude Hogan, of Killcare…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kincumber Bush Fire Brigade Dance Raising Money For Fire Fighting Equipment
The Kincumber Bush Fire Brigade will hold a dance in the Kincumber Hall on Thursday night, May 9, to raise funds for the purchase of bush…
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