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

Fires & bushfires, 1926

661 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 8 of 34

Bush Fires. Damage Near Wagga Wagga

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 February 1926 · page 3

[?]owers along the twenty five mile front of the fire advancing on the Bago State forest have removed all danger. Forestry officials still per…

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Victorian Bush Fire Fund. Melbourne

Leader · Wednesday 24 February 1926 · page 2

The bush fires relief fund this morning, had reached [?]…

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Victorian Bush Fire Fund Anxiety Practically Over Melbourne

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 February 1926 · page 3

The bush fire fund this morning totalled £94,299. Although most of the anxiety is over, the bush fires have not been…

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Kandos. Cottage and Consents Destroyed by Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 24 February 1926 · page 3

Kandos is still in the throes of the heat wave. Temperatures of over 100 are almost a daily occurrence. In view of the dry conditions prevailing, it is proposed to…

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Township Burnt Bush Fires [?] Raging Melbourne

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 15

Serious bush fires have again broken out in Victoria. It was reported last night that the town ship of Kingslake had been…

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Capertee News. Bush Fires. the Town Threatened

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 28

For a few anxious hours on Wednesday it seemed as though Capertee was going to share the fate that overtook those luckless settlements…

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Lennox's Circus. Fires Spoil Attendance

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 28

Lennon's circus played a one-night stand here on Wednesday last. The attendance was poor owing to all hands being busily…

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Flour Mill Gutted a Costly Blaze Melbourne

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 15

Damage estimated at over a quarter of million pounds was done by a fire which last night completely gutted the flour milling…

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Disastrous Fire C.S.R. Co. Works Burnt Adelaide

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 15

A tremendous fire broke our last night at the Glanville works of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. where there is stock of raw sugar…

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Country Bush Fires Minister Makes Enquiries Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly this morning, Mr. Loughlin, Minister for Lands, said that he had been enquiring into allegations that some of…

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Bush Fires in New Zealand. Auckland (N.z.)

Leader · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 8

A [?] message says that huge bush fires are raging [?] Bay. They are being [?] by a strong wind, and the [?] are…

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Blackheath Fire Brigade

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 3

The annual meeting of the management committee of the Blackheath volunteer fire brigade was held on Monday night. The income and expenditure account and…

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Big Fire at Dubbo

Leader · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 6

[?] saw mills, at Dubbo, had a close [?] from being burned to the ground on Monday night last. Mr Harry U[?]ey, who [?] well-known…

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Destructive Fires 15,000 Tons of Sugar Destroyed

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 6

Most disastrous fires occurred on Wednesday in at least two of the States. In Victoria the township of Kinglake, about 25 miles north-east of Melbourne, was…

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Quarter of a Million Blaze Melbourne Flour Mill Gutted. MELBOURNE

Leader · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 8

A huge spectacular are which destroyed the flour mills of John Darling and Sons, at Sunshine, last night, did damage estimated at over a…

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Three-quarter Million Adelaide Fire. Adelaide

Leader · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 8

A [?]ire wrought terrific damage at Port Adelaide, last night. The fire [?]ighters made a magnificent but unsuccessful attempt to hold the blaze…

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Township Destroyed Wiped Out by Fire. Victoria Again Affilcted. Melbourne

National Advocate · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 2

The heavily timbered areas of Victoria are once more being destroyed by bush fires. Fanned by a strong wind from the north which blow all…

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£100,000 Damage Big Fire in Sugar Plant 17,000 Tons of Sugar Burning Adelaide

National Advocate · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 2

The damage to the Colonial sugar refining plant at Port Adelaide following the disastrous fire last night, is estimated at £100,000. A…

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Pen-Notes and Pencillings the Bushfires

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 7

If the Northern Hemisphere has been visited by one of the worst winters ever known, floods devastating whole provinces, and cold taking scores of lives, assuredly…

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Mullion Creek Bush Fires

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 4

The big Mullion Creek bush fire, which broke out last week, resulted in 4,000 acres of the State Forest being burnt over and a considerable amount…

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