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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1913

6 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Bush Fire at Cattai

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 18 January 1913 · page 4

A bush fire broke out on Mr H. Johnston's property, Cattai and made a clean sweep of all the higher portions of the block enclosed between the two creeks…

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The Bush Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 4

SOME particulars of the damage done by the bush fire which devastated the country around Sackville on Saturday last are given on another page. The appended…

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Destructive Fire. Miles of Flame

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 7

The fire that visited Sackville and Ebenezer on (be eye of Anniversary Day, 1913, is one the will be long remembered on account nf die rapid pace at which it…

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Wiseman's Ferry Police Court MARCH 28.—Before Mr T. B Clegg, P.M. and Mr H. Walker, J.P. Careless Use of Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 5 April 1913 · page 10

Edward North was summoned on two charges: —(r) That on the 22nd January last, at Webb's Creek, he did leave, temporarily or otherwise, a fire which he had lighted in the open before it was…

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The Scheyville Fire

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 31 May 1913 · page 9

Henry Sanders sued James Leslie Williams, nominal defendant on behalf of the Government, to recover £150 damages caused to his hayshed, hay, fencing, grass, etc…

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Fire at Richmond

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 4

On Thursday night of last week the four room w.b. cottage of Mr. Lolan ("Joe") Phipps, in Treviot street, was complelely destroyed by fire, the origin of which is not…

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