The Fire Brigades' Act
MR. T. H. NANCE, who has been appointed Inspector of the North Coast District, extending from Taree to the Tweed, was in town during the week…
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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires
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MR. T. H. NANCE, who has been appointed Inspector of the North Coast District, extending from Taree to the Tweed, was in town during the week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. JOHN BRYSON presided over the annual meeting of the members of the Kempsey Volunteer Fire Brigade. Despite the bad weather there was an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ina special issue of the "Government Gazette" the Chief Secretary published the regulations under the new Fire Brigades Act, which came…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the largest fires ever known at Rutherglen [Victoria) occurred yesterday. Several business places were destroyed and the damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—A terrible disaster has occurred to the town of Cloncurry, a great portion of which has been completely burnt out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early on Friday morning, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock a disastrous fire broke out at Dorrigo, by which the Commercial Hotel and two adjoining building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Murray Bridge on Tuesday night states that a terrific bush fire is raging on Wild Horse Plains, about five miles from Murray…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is some time since the fire fiend paid a visit to Bowraville, but he again stalked amongst us early on Sunday morning, and were it not for the energy of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Between seven and eight o'clock on Sunday morning last, smoke was seen issuing from the side of Mr. E. Simmon's store at West Kempsey. Mr. Simmon…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ELBOW-STREET, West Kempsey, on one side at least must be a good place to live out of During the past, nine months there have been four…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →SHORTLY before 2 a.m. on Wednesday residents of West Kempsey were startled by the ringing of the school bell and the cry of "Fire." The scene…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Casino, a peculiar position has arisen in connection with the new fire brigade regulations. Mr. Nance, district officer, inspected the station and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE alarm of fire in the early hours of one day last week again brings prominently before us the unpreparedness of the town to cope with such…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An inquiry into the recent outbreak at fire at the premises occupied by N. Daley, in Elbow-st; was conducted by the District Coroner on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Saturday morning last the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, P.M. and Coroner, held an inquiry into the cause of the fire at Nichola's Daley's store in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is believed that the holocaust at at Mapeha, Austria, where 400 lives were lost, was caused by an angry peasant youth who objected to other…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. T. H. Nance, the supervising officer of North Coast fire bridges, was in Kempsey last week, and completed arrangements for the taking over of the local brigade, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Kempsey Volunteer Fire Brigade -- which did excellent work in this town in the past, as witness the splendid save they made at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jack Willoughby stood on the verandah outside his door and looked straight in front of him, with an air of contented proprietorship…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co's works at Ford City have been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £300,000. Out of a…
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