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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1938

104 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 6 of 6

£2,000 Damage. Fire at Baradine. Sydney

North West Champion · Monday 19 December 1938 · page 2

A message from Baradine states that the business premises of Mr. A. W. St. Leger, chemist, and Messrs A. and E. Morgan, batchers, were…

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Nurse Burnt to Death Hospital Fire. Sydney

North West Champion · Monday 19 December 1938 · page 2

Nurse Ivy Barton, 33, was fatally burned during a fire yesterday morning in the nurses' quarters at the Prince of Wales Military Hospital at…

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Bush Fire Prevention

North West Champion · Thursday 22 December 1938 · page 3

It is an amazing fact that Section 3 of the Bush Fires Act, which was passed by Parliament in 1930, has never been brought into operation,…

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Men Arrested Fire at Police SYDNEY

The North Western Courier · Thursday 22 December 1938 · page 1

Masked bandits are alleged to have battered a man and left him for dead at Cootamundra on Monday night…

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