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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1927

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Tweed Heads Blaze. Much Damage Done. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 June 1927 · page 5

A fire at Tweed Heads was responsible for considerable damage to Blanchard's hairdressing and stationery business…

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Fatally Burned. Fire at Hospital

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 June 1927 · page 2

The bolling over vessel containing fat in the kitchen of St. Vincent's Hospital on Sunday had serious results…

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Fire at St. Vincent's Girl Fatally Burned

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 14 June 1927 · page 3

Sarah Maguire, aged. 25, employed as a kitchenmaid at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, died in that institution on Sunday night from burns received when…

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Incendiarism Suspected. Fire in Melbourne Electric Works

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 4

A fire broke out in the Victoria Electric Plaster Company's extensive works at Kensington Melbourne. After the fire brigade suppressed…

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Flight to India. D'oisy Crashes. 'Plane Destroyed by Fire London, June 14

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 7

Captain Pelletier D'Oisy, the famous French airman, and his companion, Gouiu, crashed two miles from Le Bourget (Paris) to-day, when starting on…

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Dispensary Blaze Three Firemen Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 13

Working in clouds of dense smoke, impregnated with blinding eucalyptus, the firemen were faced with a difficult task in subduing a fire which…

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Tweed Heads Blaze. Much Damage Done. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 14

A fire at Tweed Heads was responsible for considerable damage to Blanchard's hairdressing and stationery business…

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Fire Alarms. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 5

In response to representations made by kearsley shire, the Board of Fire Commissioners have agreed to install fire alarms in the…

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Fatally Burned. Fire at Hospital

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 5

The boiling over a vessel containing fat in the kitchen of St. Vincent's Hospital on Sunday had serious results…

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Melbourne Fire. Serious 'Phone Delay. Damage Exceeds £10,000

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 9

A fire which broke out in the store of Howard Smith. Ltd., shipowners, in North Wharf-road. Melbourne, caused damage estimated at more…

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Fire at Lorn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 4

The west Maitland Fire Brigaue received a call about 12.55 p.m. today to a house in Melrose-street, Lorn, occupied by Mr. H.Moxon. An…

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Car on Fire. Two Men Burned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 2

Frank Thompson and Ernest Robertson received painful injuries through burning as the result of the exposure of a naked light to petrol…

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Keep the Fire of Life Burning Within

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 3

PROFESSOR G. H. RAYMOND has frequently promulgated that all diseases originate in one common cause, namely, the absence of an equilibrium…

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Boxing. Fire Brigades Tournament

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 11

A boxing tournament Is being promoted by the Fire Brigades ' committee in aid of the Maitland Hospital and the Ambulance Competitors at…

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Incendiarism Suspected. Fire in Melbourne Electric Works

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 9

A fire broke out in the Victoria Electric Plaster Company's extensive works at Kensington Melbourne. After the fire brigade suppressed…

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Garage Blaze. Valuable Cars Destroyed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 8

Serious damage was done by a fire which occurred at 9 o'clock last night in a garage and motor engineering shop of Jensen and Hary,…

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Kearsley Fire Statior

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 5

The new station at Kearsley has been completed and handled over to the fire-fighters. The station is equipped in the most up-to-date…

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Increased Fire Insurance Premiums

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 3

The effect of several increases in working expenses, such as Wages, Cartage, Workers' Compensation. Insurance, etc., is felt immediately by…

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School Fire Boys Suspected

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 3

The police, believe that children set fire to the Waterloo Public School, in Botany-road, on Saturday aftternoon. When the brigades arrived, four…

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Bush Fires. Heavy Compensation Claimed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 June 1927 · page 8

Following a claim by various settlers near Wirranya, near Forbes, it is stated that £72,000 has now been paid by the Railway Commissioners…

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