Bush Fire Brigades
S. Hurlstone advised the meeting of the Manning Shire Council that there would be 27 members of a fire brigade at…
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Fires & bushfires, 1954
131 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 7
Another Threat From Fire 'Bug'
SYDNEY, Feb. 4. -- Manager of a theatre at Granville said today that he had received a 'phone call from a man…
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SYDNEY: The Granville Chamber of Commerce has been told by a private investigator to expect a fire and…
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A grass fire on the outskirts of Forster on Tuesday afternoon menaced a cordial factory and several…
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At a sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions, Coramba, Andrew Toms, of Brooklana, was fined £50 and 12…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court of Petty Sessions. Courtof Petty Sessions. Wingham, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1954. Before Mr. A. D. Tyler, S.M. Fire At Marlee— Information Dismissed
Reginald Oswald Cross, of Marlee, was charged with that, immediately upon becoming aware of a fire (not being a…
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Mr. and Mrs. R. S. (Tom) Lavender, suffered a severe loss yesterday morning when their South Kempsey home was almost completely destroyed by fire, despite the heroic efforts of a large number of men who worked frantically as a bucket brigade…
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At a sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions, Coramba, Andrew Toms, of Brooklana, was fined £50, and 12'- court costs…
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Mervyn Stanley Potts, of Taree, was charged with having, during a bush fire danger period, caused a fire to be lit on land…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court of Petit Sessions. Wingham, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1954. Before Mr. A. D. Tyler, S.M. Did Not Notify Re Fire Outbreak
Henry James Morris, of Strathcedar, was charged with, immediately upon becoming aware of a fire shot being a fire…
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At the instance of Mr. A. C. Ryman, captain of Congarrinni and Wilson Road Bush Fire Brigade,…
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BRISBANE, Feb. 18.--Damage estimated at between £50,000 and £80,000 was caused to-night when fire gutted the…
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In connection with the fire that destroyed Mr. R. S. (Tom) Lavender's home at South Kempsey last…
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Our Cedar Party correspondent writes: We had a thunderstorm a few days ago, a typical…
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Following representations from the Kempsey Fire Brigade, the Kempsey Show Committee decided on Saturday…
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Mr. A. D. Tyler, S.M., inflicted numerous fines on Hastings district residents for failure to observe regulations…
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About 2 p.m. yesterday, a fire broke out in a wooden shed at rear of a brick cottage in Tozer Street,…
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Cr. D. C. McRae on Wednesday urged that the Gloucester Shire Council's delegate to annual shires conference in June should press for…
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The biggest coal fire in the world has, for the past 14 years, been burning through an abandoned coalmine deep…
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At Kempsey Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, before Mr. O. J. Lake, S.M., two men were fined for breaches of the Fire Precaution Act, the offences having occurred in the vicinity of Crescent Head…
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