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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1925

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Miles of Fire. Trundle Stations Flame Swept

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 December 1925 · page 2

A disastrous bush-fire, 40 miles long and 25 miles wide, is blazing at Trundle. A spark from a sawmill engine is…

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Big Bush Fire

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 December 1925 · page 2

A disastrous bush fire broke out on Monday at Boona Station, in the Trundle district. The flames spread rapidly. All the grass on Melrose…

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Fire Brigades' Hospital Carnival. Further Arrangements Made

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 December 1925 · page 6

The usual weekly meeting of the joint committee was hold at the Fire Station on Tuesday evening. Mr. C. Besley, officer in charge of the East…

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Bush Fire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 December 1925 · page 9

On Wednesday, during the heat of the day, an alarm of fire was rung. The fire proved to be in the bush, beyond the Bellbird…

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Fire

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 4 December 1925 · page 5

Shortly alter 2 p.m. yesterday the fire brigade received a call to South Cessnock. When the brigade arrived it was seen that about five acres of…

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Bush Fires. Thousands of Acres Flame Swept. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 3

More than 50,000 acres of grass were swept clean by bush fires which broke out about fifteen miles west of Tullamore, in the Parkes district…

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Kerosene Explodes. Blaze on Railway Truck

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 9

Following an explosion, a number of drums of kerosene that were standing in a truck in the North Melbourne railway yards caught fire on…

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Separate Fires. Suspicious Outbreak in Sydney. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 6

Two separate fires were discovered in a house in Langley Lane, City, last night. One was on the ground floor and…

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Miles of Fire. Trundle Stations Swept

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 16

A disastrous bush-fire. 40 miles long and 25 miles wide, is blazing at Trundle. A spark from a sawmill engine is…

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Shop Fire. Charge of Arson Fails

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 7

George Lesile Achurch was charged at Sydney Sessions with maliclously setting fire to a shop at Annandale on September 27, with…

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Fire Brigades' Hospital Carnival. Further Arrangements Made

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 5

The usual weekly meeting of the joint committee was held at the Fire Station on Tuesday evening. Mr. C. Besley, officer in charge of the East…

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Fire at Kurri. Another Narrow Escape. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 4

Following upon the narrow escape from a serious conflagration on Wednesday evening at Mr. W. Connors pastry shop in Cessnock street…

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Suspicious Fire. Cottage Destroyed at Newtown. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 5

A four-roomed weatherboard cottage and contents at Newstown were destroyed by fire to-day. The Cause of the outbreak is…

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Kurri Fire. a Narrow Escape. Shell-grit Used to Advantage. Kurri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 December 1925 · page 7

Whilst engaged at 6.30 last evening in his office, Councillor Albert Burns (Messrs. Burns and Outteridge, produce merchants, Cessnock street,…

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Bush Fire. at East Cessnock. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 December 1925 · page 5

Small isolated bush fires are becoming rather prevalent in the Cessnock district. There was an outbreak on the east side of Cessnock yesterday…

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Bega Blaze

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 December 1925 · page 3

must see Gerald again, there was so much to say that she had been prevented from saying. Mrs. Joyce for a wonder did not present herself, and…

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Bega Blaze. Newspaper Office Damaged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 December 1925 · page 5

A disastrous fire occurred in the business part of the town of Bega early this morning, when Mrs. Dainers' restaurant was completely…

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Local and General. Outbreak of Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 December 1925 · page 4

An outbreak of fire in some packing cases at the rear of Collard's [?]tores in High-street yesterday was extinguished with buckets of water…

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Bush Fires

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 December 1925 · page 2

Several bush fires have occurred during the last fow days in the vicinity of Cessnock. About 11.30 on Sunday morning the Cessnock Fire…

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Another Kurri Fire. Permanent Man Essential

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 December 1925 · page 3

There have been three fires in Kurri in less than a week. The first (at W. Connors' bakery) was suppressed early by Councillor Albert Bums; the…

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