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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

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Brunt Out. Big Fire in Sydney. £30,000 Damage. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 November 1924 · page 5

The big four storey warehouse of the Edison Swan Electric Company, Ltd., Clarence-street, was burnt on early this morning…

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Kerosene Blaze. Boy Fatally Burned. Rockhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 November 1924 · page 5

Doughs Dodds, aged seven, with other lads, was playing with a tobacco tin, which they filled with kerosene. Some one applied a match and the…

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Municipality Council Still Missing Fire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 November 1924 · page 6

A little further has been heard about the proposal to detach portion of the Cessnock Shire ana constitute it a separate municipality, but the…

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Fire Brigade at Bellbird

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 7

Sub-Officer Charles White visited Bellbird on Tuesday for the express purpose of advancing matters so far as the Bellbird fire brigade is…

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Fire Brigade Banquet and Presentation

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 November 1924 · page 2

A very enjoyable evening was spent on Tuesday night at Geo. Burrows' Globe Cafe where the members of Dungog Fire Brigade gave a…

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Burnt Out Big Fire in Sydney. £30,000 Damage. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 13

The big four storey warehouse of the Edison Swan Electric Company, Ltd, Clarence-street, was burnt out early, this morning…

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Kerosene Blaze. Boy Fatality Burned. Rockhampton

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

Douglas, aged seven, with other lads, was playing with a tobacco tin, which they filled with kerosene. Some one applied a match and the…

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Damage by Fire. Sydney Furniture Factory Ablaze

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 14

Although fire was responsible for thousands of pounds worth of damage being done at the premises of the Sydney Furniture Company, Redfern…

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Tokio Fire. Twenty-one Lives Lost. London, Oct. 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1924 · page 13

As the result of a fire in Tokio which consumed over 600 barrack buildings 21 persons were killed and 30 injured…

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Fire at Cessnock. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1924 · page 2

Premises at the rear of Clayton's shop in Vincent-street, were discovered to be on fire at a little before eleven o'clock on Saturday night. The…

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Disastrous Blaze. Damage Totals £150,000

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 7

A fire which occurred on the premises of H. C. Richardson, Limited, motor merchants, of Currie-street, Adelaide, did damage estimated at…

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Big Blaze Damage in Adelaide. Estimated at £80,000. ADELAIDE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 November 1924 · page 5

Further particulars of the fire at Richards building, in Currie street, on Monday night show that the damage amounted approximately to £80,000…

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Weston Fire Brigade Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1924 · page 4

As a result of representations made by the Cessnock Shire, Council, the Hunter District Water Board has agreed to instal a hydrant at Weston…

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War Memorial. Designs Destroyed by Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 November 1924 · page 3

Consternation prevailed among South Australian architects when it was learned that among the many valuable articles destroyed by the…

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Big Fire in Adelaide (By telegraph.) Adelaide

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 November 1924 · page 2

A fire occurred at Richards' Building, in Currie-street, on Monday night, and the damage amounted to approximately to £80,000…

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Fire Wool Records a Very Strong Market. Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report.—

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 November 1924 · page 5

At no time has demand for wool in Australia been keener and more general than at our Sydney sale last Tuesday. France, Germany, Yorkshire,…

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Disastrous Blaze. Damage' Totals £150,000

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 7

A fire, which occurred on the premises of H. C Richardson, Limited, motor merchants, of Currie-street, Adelaide, did damage estimated at…

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Big Blaze Damage in Adelaide. Estimated at £80,000. ADELAIDE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 7

Further particulars of the fire at Richards building, in Cuirie street, on Monday night, show that the damage amounted approximately to £80,000…

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Fire at Cessnock. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 16

Premises sat the rear of Clayton's shop in Vincent-street, were discovered to be on fire at a little before eleven o'clock on Saturday night. The…

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Weston Fire Brigade Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 5

As a result of representations made by the Cessnock Shire Council the Hunter District Water Board has agreed to instal a hydrant at Weston…

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