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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1927

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

Midnight Blaze Fire at Kurrajong

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 February 1927 · page 4

A FIRE broke out in the store conducted by Mr. W. A. Outtrim, near Hart's Hall, Kurrajong, shortly before midnight on Tuesday of last week, and…

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Midnight Blaze Fire at Wiseman's Ferry Hay Shed and Stables Alight

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 February 1927 · page 1

On Thursday night last a fire broke out in Mr. Walmsley's stables and hayshed. The origin is a mystery. Possibly someone had left matches about or dropped them…

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Launch Destroyed Fire on Colo River

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 4

The trading. motor launch, Ruby Jean,, owned by Mrs. Robert Eveningham, of Sackville North, which is used for conveying, meat between Sackville,. Central Colo…

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Fire at North Richmond Local Store Destroyed Mr.f.j.norris' Heavy Loss

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 3

MUCH SYMPATHY is fell for Mr and Mrs.F.J. Norris, whose general store at North Richmond was totally destroyed by fire early on Monday morning…

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Big Blaze at Cattai Mr. Moore Mitchell a Big Loser

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 September 1927 · page 2

ON SUNDAY night Mr. Moore Mitchell suffered considerable loss by the destruction of his large shed, which contained his. motor truck, and most of his farming…

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Fire Hydrants

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 7

The President of the Board of Fire Commissioners of N.S.W.' (the Hon. T. J. Smith, M.L.C.) visited Wellington on the 1st September, 1927, and met the Mayor and…

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Importation of Apples the Fire Blight

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 9

In the (Federal Parliament recently Mr. A. G. Manning, M.P., referred to a published statement in the Press that an apple famine was likely in New South Wales…

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Fire Blight Importation of Apples

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 November 1927 · page 9

Mr. A. G. Manning, M.P., in the Federal Parliament: Last week I asked the Minister for Trade and Customs if he would give an assurance in this House that, in view of…

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Fire at St. Albans Two-storey Building Destroyed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 November 1927 · page 3

MR. BEN. CHAPMAN'S house—a two-storey building and a detached kitchen—together with most of its contents, was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday last…

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Cottage Destroyed "Maliciously Set on Fire." Blaze at Currency Creek

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 December 1927 · page 1

MYSTERY surrounds the origin of a fire which occurred at Currency Creek, near Wilberforce, on November 23, and destroyed an unoccupied 4-roomed slab cottage, the…

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