FIRE! Residence Totally Destroyed Early Morning Blaze
At about 2.45 a.m. on Thursday morning a fire was discovered in premises occupied by Mr. W. Newling and family at Kite street,…
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Fires & bushfires, 1930
273 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 10 of 14
Cottage Destroyed. Fire Inquiry. Open Finding
An inquiry into the destruction by fire of a two-roomed cottage, belonging to Charles W. Field, at Parkesborough, was held by the…
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Extensive damage was caused by it fire that broke out in W. J. Barton's produce store in Rankin Street, Forbes about 2.30 a.m. on…
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Two more serious outbreaks of fire occurred in Forbes during the week. On Wednesday afternoon, while Mrs. Jesse Hosier was cleaning some…
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A fire that had started among some boxes under a wooden platform adjacent to the rear of Ison's store, was discovered about 7.30 last night by…
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Mr. B. Barber, Acting Divisional Inspector of the New South Wales Fire Brigades, inspected the local brigade during the week-drilling,…
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A fire was discovered in the State Parliamentary buildings in Macquarie Street early this morning, and had it not been for the automatic alarms…
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The Presbyterian School Hall and the caretaker's cottage at the Mosman bowling green were destroyed by fire last night, while the Club House was…
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A five was discovered in the State Parliamentary buildings in Macquarle Street early this morning., and but for the automatic alarms the…
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Yesterday afternoon a little girl at Mrs. Tolmie's home, in Clarlind'a Street lost 6d in the kitchen. She struck a match to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FIRE. Cottage Destroyed. Old Man Arrested
About 4 p.m. on Saturday the fire bell rang, and it was found that the scene of the outbreak was a two-roomed cottage on the…
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The British airship, R101, the largest in the world, which was making a flight to India, blew up and burst into flames near Beauvais (France) It is reported that only seven of the 53 aboard were saved…
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The District Coroner (Mr. H. W. Hall) has been engaged to-day in several fire inquiries. In the case of the burning of Mr. L. J. May's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"A Lot of Fires" Coroner to Forbes Man Quandialla Inquiry
"We can't find that you have any enemies, but we do find that you have had a lot of fires," was the remarkable statement by the…
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At about 10.15 a.m. on Sunday a fire broke out in the ikitchen of Mr. Fred Welsh's home, Central Wyalong. The latter was away at the time, but…
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An inquiry into the fire which destroyed Mr. L. J. May's home, on the Wellington Road, on the night of Sunday, September 21, was held before the District Coroner, Mr. H. W. Hall, on Thursday last, but the witnesses Heard could throw no definite light on the origin…
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That the fire was maliciously started by some person of persons unknown was the conclusion which the District Coroner…
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On Tuesday night, about 9 o'clock, a fire broke out in a six roomed weatherboard cottage in Currajong street, owned by Mrs. Peter Clarke,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →News of the West DELIBERATE Parkes School Fire
Last Thursday the Parkes District Coroner held an inquiry into the fire at Parkes High School on September 19…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Didn't Care Old Man on Fire Charge
'You can do as you like. I don't care two-pence," was the reply of the old man, Patrick Rodgers, when charged at Parkes Court with setting fire…
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