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Illawarra · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1910

10 stories in Illawarra's papers

Fire Brigades Administration

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 2

The new Fire Brigades Act has been assented to by the Governor and came into operation on January 1. Important changes are brought about…

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Few Fire Brigades Board. Superintendent Webb Explains

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1910 · page 4

The Fire Brigades Act of New South Wales came into operation on 1st January. "The brigade," said Mr. Webb, the…

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Fire in the Harbor. Launch Destroyed

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 2

The oil launch Janet caught fire and was burnt to the waters' edge at 2 a.m. on Friday morning in Belmore Basin. She was being got ready for…

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Fire Brigades' Commission

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 15 February 1910 · page 2

Eight nominations have been received for the sect on the New South Wales Fire Commission, to be filled by a representative of country…

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Cry of Anguish. Fire Scenes at Croydon

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 April 1910 · page 6

Giving evidence on Monday, January 24, at the inquest at Croydon (Eng.) on the bodies of Mr and Mrs Barnshaw, who lost their lives in a fire at…

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Fire Heroine Rewarded

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 3

In recognition of the prompt and efficient aid rendered by her at a fire, in South Lambeth last year, when a child was burnt to death, Miss Beatrice Daisy…

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Distressing Bronchitis. Had to Get Up and Sit by the Fire at Night. Peps to the Rescue

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 June 1910 · page 7

Mrs, Christina Hooper, of Melbourne Street, North Adelaide, S.A., writes:—"I am now 53 years of age, and suffered for nine months from…

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Wollongong Fire Station

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 20 September 1910 · page 2

Tho Mayor is in receipt of a letter from Mr. W. Cracknell, of the Board of Fire Commissioners, stating that it will not be possible to erect a now…

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A Lake on Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 November 1910 · page 3

The Lake of Waterloo is a phosphorescent sheet of water 1000 feet long, near Nassau, in the Brahamas. At night it is like a sheet of living fire if the wind is…

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Presbyterian Church Fire

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 December 1910 · page 18

On Saturday, the Coroner, Mr. A. E. Elliot, P.M., held an inquest as to the destruction by fire early on Thursday morning last week of the…

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