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Illawarra · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1925

23 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 2

Bulli Fire Station

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 8

The Board of Fire Commissioners wrote regarding the necessary construction of a crossing over the gutter in front of the station that they…

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Fire Board Representative

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 6

Voting will take place about the end of next month in electing a representative for country Councils on the Fire Brigades Board, the present…

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Fire Brigade Board

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 8

Several candidates wrote seeking support in the election of a representative of country Council on the Fire Brigades Board, Ald. Cullen, Waggn, being the…

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Fire-fighting Appliances

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 March 1925 · page 2

The efforts of the members of the Port Kembla Fire Brigade to secure more modern fire-fighting appliances and better quarters for a Fire Station, are deserving of recognition, and we hope that the aldermen of Central Illawarra Council will insist on the Fire Brigade…

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Narrow Escape. Fire Extinguishers Effective

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 2

Yesterday whilst tar was being heated on the top of Waters' store, Crowu-st., Wollongong, for the purpose of tarring the Malthoid roof of the…

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Fire at Bulli

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 11

A weatherboard residence in Park Rd. Bulli, occupied Mr Tregouning, jun. and family, was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour last Saturday morning…

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Lower Crown Street Fire

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 26 June 1925 · page 8

On Sunday night last between ten and eleven a man enroute to work observed fire in Mr. C. Walsh's shop, lower Crown-street. He…

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Premises Destroyed by Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 June 1925 · page 3

At 10.40 on Sunday night, a call was received at the Wollongong Fire Station to Lower Crown Street, where the premises occupied by Mr. C. Walsh as…

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Fire at Helensburgh

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 July 1925 · page 6

Two deputies on the way to the Metropolitan mine from Helensburgh, early an Wednesday morning noticed a hut, which, was known, to be…

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Coroner's Inquiry. Regarding Fire at Bulli

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 7

The Acting District Coroner, Mr. W. Scott, S.M., held an inquiry at the Bulli Police Court, on Tuesday, regarding the circumstances of a fire which…

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Disastrous Fire

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 5 August 1925 · page 3

The picturesque Rectory built by the Church of England a few years ado was totally destroyed by fire on Friday night toward 8 o'clock. After the…

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A Handy Fire Extinguisher

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 11

Whilst Mr. A. Waples was sitting in his 6-cylinder Studebaker car in Crown Street, Wollongong, on Wednesday night, a fire broke out in the vicinity…

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Excitement at Wollongong Tar Plant on Fire

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 September 1925 · page 10

On Tuesday morning the Wollongong Council's new tar plant was drawn along Crown Street to the intersection of Keira Street, where it was intended…

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Fire at Stanwell Park

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 6

The Coroner (Mr. Longfield, S.M.) conducted an inquiry at the Court House Wollongong, on Monday touching the destruction by fire of the kiosk at…

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Coroner's Court Fire at Stanwell Park

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 October 1925 · page 6

An inquiry was held on Monday into the circumstances of a fire which destroyed the kiosk at Stanwell Park, the property of the…

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Fire at Nowra

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 6

Mr. Charles Morgan, solicitor, Wollongong, the Labour candidate for Eden-Monaro, was responsible for the timely quelling of an outbreak of fire…

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Fire in Crown Street

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 17

On Tuesday night between nine and ten a glow of fire was observed by Mr. E. S. Burrows on the window of Mr. H. Jamison's, Crown St…

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Fire in Crown St., Wollongong

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 6

The Wollongong Fire Brigade, under Capt. Gleeson, is to be congratulated on the fine work which saved the building occupied by Mr. H. J. Jamieson (fancy…

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Another Fire

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 27 November 1925 · page 6

Between 3 and 4 a.m. on last Sunday morning, W. Anderson ga[?] word at Wollongong Fire Station an outbreak in J. W. Kelly's[?]…

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Fire at Wollongong. Keira Street Premises Suffer

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 November 1925 · page 1

Wollongong Fire Brigade has another good save to place to its credit. At 2.35 a.m. on Sunday Captain Gleeson was informed by William Anderson…

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