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Fires & bushfires, 1921

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Bush Fires Still Racing Out West. Dubbo

The Daily Express · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 4

A fire with a front of fully 50 [?] is still raging over a rich corner of the West and the [?] is assisting the [?]ames…

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False Fire Alarm

The Daily Express · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 2

About 1.15 this morning the towns people were alarmed by the fire call. The brigade was called to a house in the vi[?]ity of D[?]low Street, but…

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The [?]Ura Fire. Fresh Outbreaks

The Daily Express · Saturday 17 December 1921 · page 4

There were [?] of the Oura, [?] on Wednesday and again yesterday, About 1500 acres of grass were [?] on Wednesday in the direction…

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Big Bush Fire. Crops and Fences Burnt Urangeline Soldiers Suffer

The Daily Express · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 2

A disastrous bush fire broke out on Thursday on the [?]oldtar settlement at Urangellne, destroying crops and grass on in holding according to a…

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A Jackalas Fire

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 2

About 3 p.m. on Friday a fire started in Mr J. Hawthorne's paddock, fronting Jackalas road, and ran up the hill towards…

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The Illabo Fire

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 2

The fire at Illabo on Tuesday started at a heap of wheat bags in the middle of one of Mr Moroney's cultivation paddocks, and…

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Intense Fires. in the Dubbo District. Dubbo

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 3

Dense clouds of smoke obscured the sky to the south of Dubbo yesterday, and reports to hand are to the effect that the mountains separating…

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Bush Tires. Mingay's Second Fire

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 19 December 1921 · page 2

About 11 o'clock on Thursday Mingay had its second scourging from a bush fire. The blaze sprang upi on the roadside, quite…

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Fire Brigade Elections

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 1

The last issue of the "Government Gazette" contains the particulars of the election of fire brigade, commissioners which is to be held on…

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Fire in Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 1

A fire to-night destroyed a large wood-turning establishment at Alexandria. The damage amounts to a [?]siderable sum, but the exact…

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Local and General Mingay's Second Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 4

On Thursday Mingay had its second scourging from a bush fire. The blaze sprang up on the roadside, quite close to the homestead and fully a mile from…

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Fire at Orange Orange

The Daily Express · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 1

Four premises in Lord’s Place were gutted by fire and the [?]euion had a task to prevent the [?]anies spreading to the Bank of New South Wales…

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Four Premises Gutted. Fire at Orange. Orange

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1921 · page 2

Four premises at Orange were gutted by fire last night. The firemen had a hard task to prevent the flames oprending to the Bank of New South Wales and Fisher's drapery emporium…

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Serious Bush Fires

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 6
Also in Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review

From reports received all over the country, the recent bush fires are causing a terrific loss to the farmers and Station owners The Western…

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"Consequential" Losses Through Fire

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 2

When a tradesman has a fire on his premises he derives some consolation from the fact that he has been paying premiums to an…

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"Consequential." Losses Through Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 6

When a tradesman has a fire on his premises he derives some consolation from the fact that he has been paying premiums to an…

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A Timely Discovery. Fire at Engineering Works. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 2

The nightwatchman on duty at the Muras Engineering Works, Waterloo, at 3 o'clock this morning noticed smoke coming from the roof of the…

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Home on Fire Parents and Child Injured SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 December 1921 · page 1

A house was destroyed by fire at Belmore early this morning. The inmates had an exciting experience. Mrs. Bennett, wife of the tenant,…

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Truck of Furniture. on Fire at Fish River. Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1921 · page 3

At Fish River a quantity of furniture in a truck consigned to Wagga caught fire and had to be deluged by water from a railway hydrant. Charles…

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