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Fires & bushfires, 1917

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Greek Civilians. Fire on French Soldiers. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 3

A Greek harbour boat in Patr[?] Bay confining four tinned civilians fired on a French destroyer's boat conveying three Cretan deportees to a French trader…

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Fire at Oakhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 March 1917 · page 4

Early yesterday morning a five-roomed weatherboard cottage at Oakhampton-road, tenanted by Mrs. Mary Hughes, was destroyed by fire. At 1.55 the alarm was received at…

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The New Fire Station

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 March 1917 · page 2

As briefly stated in ur last issue, the new fire station on the Market House Reserve was officially opened on Thursday night last The…

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Fire at Kitchener. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 March 1917 · page 4

Mr. J. lawson's general store and post-office at Kitcheson's Aberdare Contral, was burnt out at an carly hour this morning, All the stock ineluding the telephone and a…

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Muswellbrook Letter. the New Fire Station. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 March 1917 · page 7

The station house is built. in a central po-sition of the municipality, in the vicinity of the Market House and railway station. The building is compact, [?] and…

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The Kitchener Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 March 1917 · page 6

The fire which broke out at Lawson's general store and post office at Kitchener early yesterday morning completely destroyed the building and contents. There was no one on the promises…

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Homeville Fire Station. Formally Taken Over. Visit of Commissioners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 March 1917 · page 14

Fire Commissioners R. Shepherd (representing Country Municipalities and at Present the Volunteer Fue Brigades) and H. F. Francis (representing the Insurance…

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An Alarm of Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 March 1917 · page 4

Shortly after six o'clock last evening an alarm of fire was received by the West Maitland Fire Station, from the alrm box in Bulwer-street, to the effect that a fire had…

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Disastrous Bush Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 4

A fire at Bandon, in the Forbes district destroyed a lot of grass and fencing, also one thousand sheep, belonging to Mr. Newell, who had sold them at thirty shillings for delivery…

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Fire in a Colliery. Caledonian Company's Mine. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 4

Fire was discovered in portion of the workings of the Caledonian Company's Aberdare Colliery at about seven o'clock last evening. The manager of the mine (Mr. R…

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The New Fire Station

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 4

The following description of the new building was unavoidably omitted from our report: It is situated at the western end of the angular…

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Fire at Camyr Allyn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 4

A hayshed and its contents were destroyed by fire last night at the residence of Mr. [?] Reynolds, Camyr Allyn. It is un-derstood that there was some insurance on…

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Aberdare Colliery Fire. Trouble Over. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 5

The work of dealing with the fire, which was discovered in portion of the workings of the Aberdare Colliery on Monday evening was taken up promptly by the manager. Mr. R…

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Fire in Colliery

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 March 1917 · page 4

A fire was discovered in a portion of the workings of the Caledonian Company's Aberdare Colliery at about 7 o'clock on Monday evening. The…

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The Kitchener Fire. Inquiry at Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 March 1917 · page 2

The district coroner, Mr. G. Brown, held an inquiry at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday, concerning the fire that destroyed thank general store and post office at Kitchener…

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Fire

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 4

About 6.30 p.m. on Thursday smoke was noticed issuing from the roof. of a building adjoining Mr.- Blunt's butter factory in John-st., and used by Messrs…

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Outbreak of Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 2

The ringing of the fireball at about halfpast six on Thursday evening brought a large number of people from their homes. The outbreak was in a building in Mr. S. Blunt's…

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Homeville Fire Station

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 4

The finishing touches having been given to the new fire station at Homeville, it was officially handed over to-day by Divisional Officer Gorman to Captain Hughes, who will…

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Destructive Fire. on Enemy Organisations

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 3

London, Thursday.—A French cormmunique states:—Between the Somme and the Oise there was great reciprocal artillery fire, especially on the…

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Fire at Port Kembla. Assay Office Destroyed. (By Telegraph.) Wollongong

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 April 1917 · page 2

A fire destroyed the assay office with contents at the Port Kembla electrolltic Company's works. The damage amountewd to £3000…

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