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

Fires & bushfires, 1934

349 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 11 of 18

Bad Boys Dog Set on Fire SYDNEY

National Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1934 · page 3

Police are searching for two boys who allegedly deliberately soaked an Irish terrier's hair with kerosene and then set fire to it last Wednesday…

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350 Chickens Destroyed Incubator on Fire Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1934 · page 5

Three hundred and fifty chickens are incinerated by a fire which completely destroyed an incubator shed at Guildford late this afternoon. The…

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Latest Local News Pensioner Burnt Out

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 June 1934 · page 12

A HUT occupied by Mr Harry Lyons, old-age pensioner, was burnt to the ground last Friday. None of the contents were…

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Fire Bri[?]

Leader · Monday 25 June 1934 · page 2

Few residents of Orange realise how much the efficiency of their fire brigade has reduced the co[?] of insurance on buildings and furniture In…

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Local Fire Risks Reclassification of Town

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 June 1934 · page 13

ON the subject of the re-classification of Gulgong owing to the installation of the water supply and the proposal to form…

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Was Report Correct? Fire Brigade Meeting

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 June 1934 · page 13

APPARENTLY some exception was taken by Ald. Baldwin to the news item in last issue of the "Gulgong Advertiser"…

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Cigarette Starts Fire

Leader · Wednesday 27 June 1934 · page 2

Had not Mr. W. Mawbery, licensee of Tattersall’s Hotel, Blayney, walked through the premises on a final tour of inspection before closing for the…

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Insurance Bush Fire Volunteers Scheme Before P.P. Boards

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 June 1934 · page 6

THE directors of the Mudgee P.P. Board will before long consider a proposal to enter into an arrangement with the Fire and…

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A Dubbo Blaze

Leader · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 2

Mi. J. II. Lahy, who [?] a millinery business at Dubbo, wax asleep at the rear of the premises on Monday morning, when he was…

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Rugby Union Fire Brigade Team's Visit

National Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1934 · page 6

Visiting Bathurst next week-end will be the New South Wales Fires Brigade's Rugby Union XV., which will be seen in action against a combined…

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Baradine Creek Fire

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 2 July 1934 · page 4

FIRE completely destroyed a house, owned by Mr Rees and occupied by Mr Flood and his family, on the eastern side of the Baradine Creek…

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Big Fires. Fruit Markets Outbreak. SYDNEY

Leader · Monday 2 July 1934 · page 2

Fifty l[?]remen were engaged at a, are which broke out at the Municipal Fruit Markets yesterday. The out-break break occurred among large stacks of…

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"Fire Blight" Virulent Fruit Disease

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 2 July 1934 · page 8

APPLE growers who fear that the importation of Now Zealand apples expose the local fruit to the introduction of the disease…

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Fire Brigade's Football Team

National Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1934 · page 2

The N.S.W. Fire Brigade Rugby Union team, to play combined Bathurst next Saturday afternoon, will arrive in Bathurst by the afternoon…

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Rugby Union Bathurst XV Beaten Win for Fire Brigades

National Advocate · Monday 9 July 1934 · page 4

In an exciting and vigorously contested finish, Combined Fire Brigades scored a creditable victory over the Bathurst representative Rugby Union…

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Thirty Incinerated. In Indian Temple Fire. CALCUTTA

Leader · Monday 16 July 1934 · page 2

Thirty were burned to death and 40 seriously Injured when a temple In Sah Maddyar village In Southern India caught fire to-day…

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Body Set on Fire Italian Murdered Compatriots Charged Melbourne

National Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1934 · page 2

In the Central Criminal Court to-day. Antonio Audini and Antonio Chiodo, 19, were Charged with the murder of Rocco Petulla, 30, an Italian…

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Fire Brigade Volunteers Wanted Inspector's Visit

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 13

INSPECTOR B. L. Barber, of the Board of Fire Commissioners' Headquarters (Sydney), arrived in Gulgong last…

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Started by Thieves Fire at Railway Station SYDNEY

National Advocate · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 3

A fire occurred at the Pennant Hills Railway Station last night and police believe it was started by thieves. Shortly after the night…

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Revolt in Venice Prisoners Fire Gaol Protest Against Treatment Venice

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 19 July 1934 · page 1

Memories of the Dartmoor mutiny were recalled by a revolt in the Judecca prison to-day of 20 convicts who, alleging rough…

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