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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1901

83 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 5 of 5

Fire Prevention

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 December 1901 · page 4

A miraculous escape from an awful conflagration brings once more to the front the question of a town water supply. Periodically, like many other important questions…

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Fire in Smith Street

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 19 December 1901 · page 4

The peaceful serenity of Kempsey on Sunday last was rudely broken Boon after mid-day by an alarm of fire. The ringing of the Smith-street Wesleyan Chapel bell conveyed…

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Fire at Central Kempsey. Disaster Narrowly Averted

Macleay Argus · Saturday 21 December 1901 · page 19

THE peaceful calm which generally broods over Kempsey on a Sabbath afternoon was rudely broken on Sunday last by a fire that broke out in the bake-house at the rear…

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