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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1925

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Fire on Steamer. Cases of Kerosene Alight. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 May 1925 · page 5

A fire broke out early this morning on board the steamer City of Bristol, lying at the company's wharf at Woolwich…

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Manly Fire. Refreshment Rooms Damaged. Police Arouse Proprietor

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 9

On 1st instant a fire severely damaged the "Jazzland" refreshment rooms, on the Corso, Manly. The premises are at the rear of the…

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Fire in Mine. Timely Discovery at Broken Hill

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1925 · page 14

A fire broke out it the South mine (Broken Hill) early on Saturday morning, but was promptly extinguished by Proto men before at had done much…

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Child Incinerated. Three Others Escape. Home Destroyed by Fire. Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 May 1925 · page 5

An eighteen months old child, named Wyllie, perished in the flames when a house was destroyed by fire near Te Awamutu…

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Chinese Gunboat. Fires on British Party. Shanghai, May 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1925 · page 2

A party of Britons, including Messrs. Lawson Hall and F. A. Walker, their wives, and Mr. Walker's son and daughter was…

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Set Fire to Haystack. Wanted to Get Into Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1925 · page 25
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Because, lie suit, he was starving and wanted go get into gaol, where he would be fed, Jack Gregson, a young man, set fire to a haystack at…

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Child Incinerated. Three Others Escape. Home Destroyed by Fire. Auckland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1925 · page 16

All eighteen months old child, named Wyllie, perished in the flames when a house was destroyed by fire near Te Awamutu…

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Destructive Fire. Another Taree Sensation. Taree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 6

Taree was visited by another disastrous fire at an early, hour on Sunday morning, when the two-storied tinsmithing and plumbing works of…

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Mysterious Fires. Tamworth Farmers Alarmed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 May 1925 · page 2

Farmers are alarmed at the number of mysterious fires which have occurred around Tamworth during the past few weeks…

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Bellbird Disaster Verdict at Inquest. Origin of the Fire. Use of Proto Apparatus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 May 1925 · page 4

Important evidence regarding the use of Proto apparatus in mines was given at the Bellbird inquest, Which was held at. Cessnock to-day. Deputy Tennant said that had the apparatus been…

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Mysterious Fires Around Tamworth

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 May 1925 · page 3

Farmers are alarmed at the number of mysterious fires which have occurred around Tamworth during the past few weeks…

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Fire in Culvert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 May 1925 · page 4

Another leak was discovered in the gas main crossing the culvert in High-street, near the West Maitland Courthouse. Workmen of the…

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Another Taree Fire

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 2

Taree is getting an unenviable notoriety for fires, and the one that resulted in the total destruction of Mr. W. Single's (late Skidmore and…

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Fire Will Become a Curio. an Interesting Forecast

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 7

In another 100 years, children may have to go to museums in order to see that strange thing called "fire" said Calvert Townley, assistant to…

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Bellbird Disaster Fire Caused by Naked Light. Portant Recommendations by Jury. Royal Commission and Rescue Stations

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 3

The adjourned inquest concerning the deaths of miners who lost their lives in the disaster which occurred in the Bellbird Colliery on…

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Mysterious Fires. Tamworth Farmers Alarmed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1925 · page 6

Farmers are alarmed at the number of mysterious fires which have occurred around Tamworth during the past few weeks…

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Destructive Fire. Another Taree Sensation. Taree

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1925 · page 16

Taree was visited by another disastrous fire at an early hour on Sunday morning, when the two-storied tinsmithing and plumbing works of…

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Bellbird Disaster Verdict at Inquest. Origin of the Fire. Use of Proto Apparatus

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1925 · page 3

Important evidence, regarding the use of Proto apparatus in mines was given at the Bellbird inquest, which was held at Cessnock on Wednesday. Deputy Tennant said that had the apparatus been…

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A Big Blaze. Chaff Mills Destroyed. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 May 1925 · page 5

Robertson's chaff mills at Werribee, the largest in Victoria, were destroyed by fire early this morning. The damage is estimated at £16,000…

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