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

Fires & bushfires, 1946

434 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 17 of 22

Fence for Fire Station

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 24 October 1946 · page 16

Gulgong Shire Council has instructed the Engineer to arrange cure a fence erected in from the local fire station…

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Apexians Heard of India’s Problems and of Fires, Too

Central Western Daily · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 4

Complexities of the racial and religious problems in India and modern fire fighting were subjects which…

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Bush Fire Fighting at Peak Hill Impressed Amaroo Engineer

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 3

Bush Fire Trial Day was held at Mr. W. H. Swain's "Riverview" property, Peak Hill, on Friday last under the supervision of Goobang…

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Fire at D.l.'s

National Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: There was no [?] amont women shoppers when cloud of thick smoke billowed around the second floor of David Jones'…

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Grass Fire in Sydney Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 2

Grass fires in 16 suburbs marked Sydney's return to summer weather today. The most serious fire broke out at French's Forest early this…

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Oberon Shire Bush Fire Brigade Public Meeting

National Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 3

A public Meeting will be held in then Soldiers Memorial Hall. Oberon on Saturday next. 2nd November. 1946, at 2.30 p.m. to discuss matters in…

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Fire at Joinery Works

National Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 2

A tire occurred at Rice's joinery works in Keppel Street about 9 o'clock last night it started among some packing cases in a storeroom…

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Witnesses Say That Hollebone Did Not Fire Fatal Shots

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Witnesses at the Coroner’s Court today denied that William Hollebone, 29, fired the…

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Fire District

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 18

Next year a special town local rate of 1½d. in the £ on the unimproved capital value will be levied by the council and the…

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Coolah Fire Brigade

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 18

Mr. Eadie, an officer of the Board of Fire Commissioners, who visited Coolah recently to form a fire brigade under the Board's…

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Fire Brigade Demonstration Dunedoo

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 20

Dunedoo's newly formed brigade gave a demonstration last Sunday morning near Royal Hotel…

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Boys Bring Out the Fire Brigade

National Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 2

The fire siren sounded yesterday but the alarm war related only to a grass fire in Clements Street, which was put out with buckets of water…

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Bombay Riots Police Open Fire

National Advocate · Saturday 2 November 1946 · page 2

BOMBAY, Friday: Communal tension has led to more disturbances in India. In Bombay, police and troops opened fire last night…

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Erudgere Bush Fire Brigade

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 7

A fair roll-up of members attended the seventh annual meeting of the Erudgere-Grattai Bush Fire Brigade held last Wednesday…

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Fire at Gasworks

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 2

Bathurst Fire Brigade was summoned at 8.10 o'clock last night to extinguish a fire which broke out at the Bathurst Gas Works in one of the…

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Fire at Young

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

YOUNG, Monday in one of the most spectacular fires it the history of the town, the general store of W. Hayes and Sons was gutted in the…

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Fire at State Forest

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 2

During the afternoon yesterday at Lithgow Six-Hour Day Sports, an urgent call was put over the microphone for volunteers to fight a fire…

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Newnes State Forest Devastated By Great Fire

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

Many narrow escapes from falling timber were experienced by volunteers yesterday and last night when an enormous bush fire in the Newnes State Forest menaced homes and caused thousands of pounds…

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City and Country Fire Near Mt. Canobolas

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 3

A bushier which has been burning for the past two days in the Canobrlas Towns district, is expected to but tiself out…

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Forest Fire Rages Near Lithgow

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 1

Firemen are standing by to see that a fire which destroyed a large area of a State…

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