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Fires & bushfires, 1854

2 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

A Fire Engine Required in Maitland

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 October 1854 · page 2

THE destructive fire on Saturday last, recorded in another column, with the narrow escape of St. Mary's Church, and of the tannery, forcibly suggests…

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Local News. Public Meeting—fire Engine

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 November 1854 · page 4

A numerous public meeting of the inhabitants of West Maitland was held on Wednesday evening, the 1st instant, in the Rose Inn, for the purpose of obtaining a fire engine and forming…

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