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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

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Bush Fires New Zealand Outbreaks Settler's Narrow Escape

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Monday. A bush fire with a front of ten miles is burning in the Puhipuhi V[?]ley and three homesteads have been…

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Rats Cause Fire Outbreak in Melbourne Melbourne

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 2

Rats in a basement are believed to have started a fire, which broke out in a building to-day. Paper was stored in the room and the flames…

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Fire at Wee Waa Whole Block Endangered Wee Waa

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1924 · page 2

A fire broke out in Kennedy's general store early yesterday morning and completely destroyed the building and contents. It also destroyed a shop…

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Big Blaze at Gassilis Messrs. Kellett and Sons' Stoke Destroyed. Fire Fighters Handicapped

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 5

The largest and most disastrous fire that has ever occurred in tho Cassilis district broke out early on Sunday morning, the 30th ultimo,…

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Disastrous Fire Many Buildings Burned. Heavy Losses. Narrabri

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 19

Two hours after midnight it was found that the shop of Campbell and Co., photographers, was ablaze. Flames quickly spread on. both sides…

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Revolver, Axe and Razor Religious Maniac Runs Amok Fires at Clergyman; Holds Police Party at Bay Then Attempts Suicide Melbourne

National Advocate · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 2

A sensation occurred at Kensington to-day when a young man named [?] is now in Melbourne Hospital in a critical…

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Two Fires. at Cassilis and Springwood. Mudgee

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 3

The branch store at Cassilis of Messrs. W. Kellett and Sons, Ltd., Madgee, and its contents have been completely destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £10,000…

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Clothes Caught Fire, Woman's Awful Death Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 7

Mrs. Vidler, of Parramatta was found by her husband screaming in the back yard, with her clothes in flames. They were extinguished but the…

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Town Half Destroyed. Disastrous Queensland Blaze

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 2

The most disastrous fire in the history of Nambour (Q.) occurred on Saturday night, 16 buildings being destroyed. They represented more than half the business…

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Queensland Blaze. Town Half Destroyed. Sydney

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 12

The most disastrous fire in the history of Nambour. Queensland occurred on Saturday night, when sixteen buildings were destroyed…

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The Years Fires 13 Calls in Bathurst

National Advocate · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 1

During the year ended December 31 last the Bathurst Fire Brigade has received 13 calls and one false alarm. The most serious outbreak was that…

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Queensland Town Pays Fire Toll 16 Shops Destroyed. Heavy Explosion. Brisbane

The Bathurst Times · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 2

The most disastrous fire in the history of the North Coast, occurred at Nambour, on Saturday night. Sixteen shops in the main street…

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Country Fires Man Suffocated. Macksville

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 3

John Cain (32), employed by C. Janson, timber merchant, at Nambucca Heads, was found dead yesterday in a cottage near the mill, in which he…

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The Fire on the Moldavia. Sydney

Leader · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 2

Many of the passengers by the Moldavia, which arrived In Sydney today, are heavy losers, owing to a fire in her hold at Fremantle. The loss…

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Dock Fire Biggest for 50 Years London

National Advocate · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 2

The biggest London dock fire for half a century occurred at Poplar this afternoon. A large warehouse stocked with rubber, tea, and other…

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Metropolitan Fires Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 2

The firefighters promise to have even a busier day to-day than yesterday. Great heat prevails and before 10 o'clock this morning, many outbreaks…

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Blaze at Goonabarabran Several Shops Destroyed

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 16

Last night a are which started in [?] general social [?] sprean to a[?] and sheld were [?]…

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Blaze at Dubbe Damage Estimated at Thousands Water, Falls. Dubbo

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 21

[?] before 3 o'clock [?] a are broke out in the [?] rabber works of Laverack, Macquarte Street, and before…

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Fire Fiend Damage in Sydney. Sydney, Thursday

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 16

Much damage, was done by fires in the metropolitan area yesterday. Bisley's furniture factory at Ashfield. was burnt out, the…

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