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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1927

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Another Fire Scare

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 4

A little before 4 o'clock yesterday (Thursday) the local fire brigade received a call to West Kempsey. The engine was quickly brought out and…

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Important to Country Fire Brigades

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 10 September 1927 · page 12

The president of tile Board of Fire Commissioners of N.S.W. (the Hon. T. J. Smith, M.L.C.) visited Wellington on September 1, 1927, and met the…

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Fire Engines Improved

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 September 1927 · page 7

Pumping a two-inch stream of water 200 feet high without Breaking it into a wider and ragged spray, as usually happens, was the performance…

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As Hard As Rock Scientific Building Material Checks Fire and Insect Pests. (Published by Arrangement.)

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1927 · page 1

As thousands of property owners know to their cost too many homes are built without a thought to the risk of destruction or damage by fire,…

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Fire in Wauchope Desperate Fight Wins

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 30 September 1927 · page 4

There might have been a loss of buildings and business up to £50,000 by fire, had it not been for the number of people who were in…

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As Hard as Sock Scientific Building Material Checks Fire and Insect Pests

The Northern Champion · Saturday 1 October 1927 · page 8

As thousands of property owners know to their cost, too many homes are built without a thought to the risk of destruction or damage by…

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Guard Against Bush Fires

Macleay Argus · Friday 14 October 1927 · page 7

Summer is almost here, and with it will come the ever-recurring bush fire risk, which has caused such havoc to life and property in the country…

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Fire at Bundook

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 2

A fire which occurred at Bundook early on Wednesday morning totally destroyed the public hall, which contained a piano and other furnitures…

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Pirates. Seized Vessel Recaptured by Submarine Which Opened Fire

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 28 October 1927 · page 7

Vivid accounts have been published in London of the action by the British submarine L4 against Bias Bay pirates on Thursday night of last…

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A Fire Scare

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 November 1927 · page 2

About 9.30 o'clock on Sunday night Kempsey was startled by a continuous string of loud reports not unlike intermittent rifle fire. A lurid glare from…

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Current Topics Another Fire

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 4 November 1927 · page 2

Somewhere about three o'clock on Thursday morning a fire broke out in the old cottage known as French's Boarding House, In King Street,…

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Fire at Maclean

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 25 November 1927 · page 2
Also in Macleay Argus

The drapery store of Mr. C. Bender, general draper, was destroyed by fire early on Wednesday morning, and the adjoining shop, owned and…

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David Jones' New Store Damaged by Fire

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 7 December 1927 · page 2

A fire broke out at three o'clock this morning at David Jones' new establishment in Castlereagh street, But for the speedy arrival of the…

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Fire at Griffith

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 December 1927 · page 2

One building was destroyed and several others were seriously damaged by a fire which broke out at Griffith Only the efforts of voluntary…

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Kempsey Fire Brigade

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 4

Mr. H. Coghlan, head drill inspector and motor mechanic of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades, visited Kempsey recently and put the local fire brigade, headed by…

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