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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1910

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The Fire Brigades' Act

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 5

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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Kempsey Fire Brigade. Annual Meeting

Macleay Argus · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 4

MR. JOHN BRYSON presided over the annual meeting of the members of the Kempsey Volunteer Fire Brigade. Despite the bad weather there was an…

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New Fire Act

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 20 January 1910 · page 2

Ina special issue of the "Government Gazette" the Chief Secretary published the regulations under the new Fire Brigades Act, which came…

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Big Fire in Victoria

Macleay Argus · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 11

One of the largest fires ever known at Rutherglen [Victoria) occurred yesterday. Several business places were destroyed and the damage is estimated at…

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Disastrous Fire

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 10 February 1910 · page 5

SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—A terrible disaster has occurred to the town of Cloncurry, a great portion of which has been completely burnt out…

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Fire at Dorrigo

Nambucca News · Friday 18 February 1910 · page 4

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…

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Great Bush Fire. Sooth Australian Mallee Alight

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 7

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…

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The Fire Fiend

Nambucca News · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 4

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…

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Local and General News. An Alarm of Fire

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 10

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…

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Fire at West Kempsey. a Good Save

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 March 1910 · page 15

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…

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Alarm of Fire

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 4

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…

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Fire Brigades Regulations

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · 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…

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The Fire Fiend

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 2

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…

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Fire Inquiry

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1910 · page 4

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…

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Recent Fire in West Kempsey. Coronial Inquiry

Macleay Argus · Friday 25 March 1910 · page 8

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…

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The Big Fire in Austria

Macleay Argus · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 11

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…

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Kempsey Fire Brigade

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 13 April 1910 · page 6

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…

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Kempsey Fire Brigade. Now Under the Fire Brigades Board

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 April 1910 · page 8

The Kempsey Volunteer Fire Brigade -- which did excellent work in this town in the past, as witness the splendid save they made at the…

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An Ordeal by Fire

Nambucca News · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 2

Jack Willoughby stood on the verandah outside his door and looked straight in front of him, with an air of contented proprietorship…

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Big Fire in America

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 May 1910 · page 14

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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