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Mid North Coast · Fires & bushfires
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Kempsey Fire Brigade, a most efficient and alert organisation, successfully quelled 37 fires during 1953, with the result that losses from fire were negligible in the Kempsey area during that period…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Jan. 10. -- Next month an aerial patrol will be maintained over French's Forest (Sydney) to spot any…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The danger of fire on the Forster camping reserve, where there were 600 camps over the Christmas holidays, was referred to by Mr. S. Collier at the latest meeting of the Urban Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A man who said he would "give £100 to Legacy if this fire gets away" was fined £10 at Casino Court last week for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir, Allow mo, in your columns to comment on the re-election of Mr. L. C. Jordan as Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. E. Holden, situated on Lakeside Estate, several miles from Forster, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LITHGOW, Jan. 17: The next twenty-four hours is likely to decide if the seals in the State coal mine will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the instance of the chairman of the Forster Urban Committee (Mr. H. Guy), a public meeting is to be held in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Board of Fire Commissioners has written to the Kempsey Council in regard to the recent alteration in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bushfires had caused considerable damage to fencing on a number of reserves, the stock inspector, Mr. V. P. Freeman,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Jan. 24: A school and the Baptist Church were last night seriously damaged by fires,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although there was a disappointing attendance at a Forster public meeting, convened to aid the Holder…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →South West Rocks Ratepayers and Citizens' Association last night formed a sub-committee to raise funds to help…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. A. R. McNiven, of East Kempsey, who recently erected a new home on his property at Arakoon, suffered a severe loss when the house was completely destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prompt action by members of Taree Fire Brigade averted possible fire danger in the vicinity of Brown's Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kempsey Fire Brigade received its first call for 1954 at about 2 p.m. yesterday, when a grass fire was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfires during the drought had caused considerable damage to fencing on a number of Travelling Stock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →He told one defendant charged with not extinguishing a fire: "There are so many obligations blowing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A charge of not taking all reasonable Steps to extinguish a fire, against Reginald Oswald Cross, dairy farmer, of Marlee, was dimissed by Mr. A. D. Tyler, S.M., at the Wingham…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. A. D. Tyler, SM., said in the Wingham Court of Petty Sessions that it was the duty of farmers to make…
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