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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

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Flour Mill Destroyed Fire at Port Adelaide

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 August 1924 · page 11

Harrison's five-storey flourmill and adjoining stores, Commercial-road Port Adelaide, were gutted by fire on Thursday…

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Two Men Missing. Fire in State Coal Mine. Explosion at Wonthaggi

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 August 1924 · page 14

Two men are entombed, with but slender hope of rescue, in a burning coal mine at Wonthaggi, Victoria…

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Centre of Fire. Discovery at Bellbird. Evidence at Inquiry, Bellbird

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 August 1924 · page 8

One of the most dangerous aud exacting of the many explorations carried out by the men in the Proto apparatus was successfully undertaken…

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Tragic Fire. Man Burnt to Death. Botany Blaze

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 August 1924 · page 3

Tragedy attended a fire which broke out early on Sunday morning and destroyed a weather board cottage in Botany-road, Botany, Arthur…

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Warwick Blaze. Extensive Damage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 August 1924 · page 4

Between £30,000 and £4O,OOO damage was done by a fire, which destroyed business premises in the heart of Warwick on Saturday. The…

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Disastrous Blaze. Wool Shed Destroyed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1924 · page 2

Leichart Downs shed (Q.) was entirely destroyed by fire. The flames, which were 200 feet high, prevented any approach, and in half…

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Stop, or I'll Fire! Fugitives at Petersham. Constable Fires Shots. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1924 · page 5

Constable Martin was on duty at Peterson this morning when he saw two men standing close to the premises of the Government Savings…

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Fire Luckey Save

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1924 · page 2

On Sunday night about 6 p.m. an alarm of fire was given at the residence of Mr. Austin Kelly, Dungog. The curtains in a room had caught…

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Fatal Fire in Sydney Man Burned to Death

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 August 1924 · page 2

Tragedy attended a fire which broke out early on Saturday morning and destroyed a weatherboard cottage in Botany-road, Botany, Arthur Henry…

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A Disastrous Blaze

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 August 1924 · page 3

Loichhardt Downs shod (Q.) was entirely destroyed by fire. The flames, which were 200 feet high, prevented any approach, and in half an hour the…

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Fire in Unusual Circumstances

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1924 · page 4

The West Maitland Fire Brigade received a call to a fire which broke out in rather extraordinary circumstances this morning. Employees of…

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Kurri Fire Appliances. Bell Lines. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1924 · page 5

Mr. H. M. Webb, secretary of the Board of Fire Commissioners, has written to the Council, stating that in regard to the request for the…

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Cessnock Fire Station. Addition to Staff. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1924 · page 5

To-day the Cessnock Shire Council received a letter from the Board of Fire Commissioners stating that they had decided to consider with the…

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Fire Brigades District Requirements

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 August 1924 · page 4

Several letters have been received by the Shire Council from the Board of Fire Commissioners with reference to requests made on the occasion of…

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Warwick Blaze. Extensive' Damage

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 14

Between £30,000 and £40,000 damage was done by a fire, which destroyed business premises in the heart of Warwick on Saturday. The…

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Disastrous Blaze. Wool Shed Destroyed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 6

Leichardt Downs. shed (Q.) was entirely destroyed by fire. The flames, Which wore 200 feet high, prevented any approach, and in half…

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Stop, or I'll Fire! Fugitives at Petersham. Constable Fires Shots. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 16

Constable Martin was on duty at Petersham this morning, when he saw two men standing close to the premises of the Government Savings…

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Fire at Miller's Forest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 4

One of the biggest fires over witnessed in our district took place at Mr. Stan Clark's farm. Tarro-road. Mr. Clark's hayshed, with crop and…

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Big Fire in New Zealand

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 3

Christchurch Wednesday.—Woolston tanneries, one of the biggest industrial concerns in New Zealand, were almost totally destroyed by fire last night…

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Tragic Fire. Man Burnt to Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1924 · page 14

Tragedy attended a fire which broke out early on Sunday morning and destroyed a weatherboard cottage in Botany-road, Botany, Arthur…

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