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

Fires & bushfires, 1928

450 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 23 of 23

Fire Fiend. "Bunnamagoo" Station Suffers. Outbreak at Rockley

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 24 December 1928 · page 3

The services of about 50 residents of the Rockley district were required to overcome one of the most serious grass fires of the season, which broke…

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Fierce Fire Damage at Wellington Hotel Just Saved

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 24 December 1928 · page 2

A fire broke out in the promises of C. J. Shakespeare, undertaker and fancy goods dealer Wellington, on December 20…

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Another Great Fire. £70,000 Blaze at Trangie Trangie

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 27 December 1928 · page 4

Fanned by a high north-east wind a fire leapt from shop to shop in Dandaloo-street, Trangie's business centre, on Christmas Eve, destroying [?]…

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Disastrous Melbourne Fire. Melbourne, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 27 December 1928 · page 1

Shortly before three o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the Florida Flats, at the corner of St, Kilda Road and High Street. Of the 32…

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Trangie's Big Fire Edgley and Co Biggest Losers Triangle

National Advocate · Thursday 27 December 1928 · page 2

Fourteen shops and the Commercial Hotel were destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve. The damage is estimated at between…

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Trangie’s Big Blaze

Leader · Friday 28 December 1928 · page 7

Damage to the extent or nearly [?] was effected at Trangie on Xmas Eve night, when 16 shops were gulted by free. Among the building…

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Big Melbourne Blaze. Fourteen First Alight. MELBOURNE

Leader · Friday 28 December 1928 · page 8

Florida Plata, at the [?] of St. Kilda Road and High Street were as[?]verely damaged by [?] o’clock this morning, and 14 of the [?]…

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CRASH! No. 2 Blast Furnace No More. Spectacular Destruction This Morning. "Fire !" "She's All Set." "Keep Back !" "Let 'Er Go." . . . BOOM ! . . . CR-R-ASH !

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 28 December 1928 · page 4

No 2 blast furnace has fallen. And there it lies, the pride of Lithgow for nearly twenty years, a relic of man's handicraft, now a piece of broken,…

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Grass Fire

Leader · Monday 31 December 1928 · page 1

Some picnickers set fire to a grass [?] belonging to Coulson. Herton and Co. yesterday afternoon, and 40 acres of grass was destroyed Luckily…

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The Trangie Fire

Leader · Monday 31 December 1928 · page 2

When word was wired through to the effect that the Western Stores and Edgleys, Ltd., had been gutted in the Trangle fire on Xmas Eve,…

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Shops Gutted Gippsland Fire Melbourne

National Advocate · Monday 31 December 1928 · page 2

Five buildings have been destroyed by a fire which broke out at Korum burrah in South Gippsland, 75 miles from Melbourne at half past one…

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Fire in Gippsland. Business Premises Destroyed. MELBOURNE

Leader · Monday 31 December 1928 · page 2

Considerable damage was done to business premises at Korumburra in the south of Gippsland, by a fire which broke out early this morning…

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