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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1929

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Fire Brigades' Art Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

A meeting of these interested in the New South Wales Fire Brigades' Hospital-Ambulance Art Union will be held in the Five Station, West…

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Careless Motorist Causes Street Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 6

Carelessness in exposing a naked flame while filling at a petrol bowser was responsible for a fierce blaze in the main street of Kempsey…

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Fire at Stroud Demolishes Shop

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

The shop of Mr. Theodore, a Greek, was totally destroyed by a fire which broke out about l a.m. on Wednesday morning. There being no…

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Suspicious Fire. . Outbreak in Billiard Saloon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 3

The presence of a quantity of sawdust, smelling, strongly of kerosene in an unoccupied billiard saloon in Main-street, Lithgow, lead the…

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Burning Crater Mine on Fire. Powder Magazine Blown Up

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 6

Serious bush fires are reported from many places in Victoria, and already much damage to property has been done…

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Bush Fires

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 6

In the bush fire at Moneybung last week Mr. W. Sherwood lost all his grass; the fire came in from Richardson's property adjoining. The…

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Bush Fires Stations Burnt Out. Large Areas Affected

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 8

Bush fires are raging in Barrallier, and three homesteads have narrowly escaped destruction. Fire fighters have burnt many miles of fire breaks…

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Bush Fires Devastated Countryside Catchment Area Swept

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 9

A message from Bombala states that 12 Greeks, who were employed As sleeper-cutters in the vicinity of the Whipstick miles, where the…

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State Cabinet. Bush Fire. Danger

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 8

The State Cabinet gave further consideration on Wednesday to the bills to be submitted to 'Parliament when the Session resumes on February 12…

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Big Fire Four Buildings Burnt Out. Cairns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 7

A big fire broke out at Babinda at 1.30 this morning. Fiape's picture hall, and Hutcheson's dining-room adjoining, were…

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Losses of Stock Bush Fire on 50 Miles Front

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 1

Bushfires are raging in the Abercrombie Mountain near the Wombeyan Caves. The fire is in such inacessible country that it will…

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Fire at Minimbah

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 7

Advives received yesterday afternoon stated that the disastrous fire which has been swooping the property of Mr, William Foden, of…

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Another Fire at Barallier

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 1

Fanned by a heavy westerly wind bushfires have broken out again at Barallier and are doing considerable damage…

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Cessnock Fire Electric Iron Switched On

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 3

The fire which occurred in the premises of Messrs. Cormack and Lewis tailors in Vincent street, Cessnock, on Christmas Eve formed the subject…

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Bush Fires Great Damage Losses to Stock

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 2

Thanks to the timely arrival of a cool southerly wind the firefighters in the Goulburn, Araluen, Taralga, and Braidwood districts have received a respite…

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Eight Miles Front. Bush Fires at Albury. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 5

Disastrous bush fires are reported from the Albury district. Many stations are menaced and already thousands of acres have been…

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Sheep Destroyed. Barrallier Fires Jump Fire Break

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

The bush fires at Barrallier Jumped the firebreaks and went through several more sheep runs. The owners had no time to remove…

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Fire Brigades Art Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 4

A meeting of mebers of the Maitland and district fire brigades and others interested in the New South Wales Fire Brigades' Hospital and…

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Extensive Damage Spectacular Fire at Richmond

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 3

Electrical goods, machinery, and buildings valued at thousands of pounds were destroyed by a fire which occurred at the works of…

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Home Gutted Fire at Bellbird. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1929 · page 8

A live-roomed weatherboard cottage owned and occupied by Peter Craft, at Kearsley-street, Bellbird, was gutted by fire on Saturday night…

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