Open Verdict at Fire Inquiry
Tin- District Coroner. Mr. R. V. Hough, returned an open verdict at the Taree Court House, on…
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Fires & bushfires, 1951
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Storeroom on Fire Goods Destroyed
On Saturday afternoon about 3.50 p.m. the Kempsey Fire Brigade was called to a fire in the store-room of Griffin's…
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Saturday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a fire broke out in a storeroom at rear of Griffin's Cafe. Kempsey Fire Brigade was promptly in attendance and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post Office Aids in Fire Countrol
The Postmaster-General (Hon. H. L. Anthony) stated this week that the Post Office will operate as usual…
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The Forestry Department is at present experiencing a strenuous time lighting bush fires which have invaded…
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An outbreak of fire at Case Timbers Pty. Ltd's. premises at Tuncurry on Wednesday night destroyed…
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160,000 feet of logs ready to cut at, Smith Brothers sawmill, at Tuncurry caught on fire on Wednesday…
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Lansdowne suffered a very substantial loss during the early hours of Thursday morning when Messrs. W…
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Kempsey Fire Brigade was called to a grass fire in the vicinity of the quarry near the Macleay hospital about 6.45…
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Bushfire danger was high and still rising throughout the whole district, a Taree Forestry Officer said…
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Kempsey Fire Brigade was this morning called to a grass fire which was threatening homes on the Kempsey side of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wingham Council (Balance of report from last issue). Fire Station
From Secretary, Board of Fire Commissioners. [?]ing that erection of fire sister premises could not be…
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160,000 feet of logs ready to cut at Smith Brothers, sawmill at Tuncurry caught on fire on Wednesday afternoon…
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The Macleay district was under a heavy pall of smoke on Tuesday and bush fires raged at several points driven by a hot north-westerly gale…
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The Chief Secretary (Cr. C. Evatt) has signed an order prohibiting the lighting of fires in the open air between now and 12 noon…
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Extensive bushfires raging throughout the Mid-North Coast area during the past week have done many thousands of pounds worth of damage to State forests in standing timber and…
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The following telegram was received by the Taree Municipal Council and the Forestry Commission, today:…
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Taree Municipal Council is in receipt of a telegram from the Chief Secretary, announcing prohibition against the…
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Several of the 150 bushfires now raging in the Taree Forestry Commission area were deliberately lit, a Forestry official said yesterday. He said in one instance an official in a look-out…
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About 10,000 acres of State forests in the Kempsey district have now been burned over by bush fires, but that does not mean that all the timber has been destroyed. At least a good shower of rain is needed to thoroughly extinguish the…
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