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Riverina · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1924

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Wallendbeen Fire Fighters

The Daily Express · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 4

Wallendbeen is justly proud of its Bush Fire Brigade. The equipment includes 24 fire beaters, a 100 gallon tank, wlth 30 feet of hose, and three…

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The Moldavia Fire Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 2

Many passengers by the R.M.S Moldavia, who arrived In Sydney today, are heavy losers owing to the are in the hold while the ship was at…

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London Dock Fire. Biggest in Fifty Years. Seventy Fire Engines in Action LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 2

The bigger London dock fire for half a century broke out at Poplar this afternoon. A large warehouse stocked with…

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Fire at Cootamundra Brigade’s Good Work Cootamundra

The Daily Express · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 2

Half an hour after F.C. Legge had looked up his shop last night , a fire was noticed near the main entrance door in Parker Street…

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London’s Big Fire Rubber Store Ablaz[?] Seventy Engines Eng[?] London [?] 7

The Daily Express · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 4

The bigger London [?] fire in to years occurred at [?] when a large warehouse stooked with rubber, tea and [?]…

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Bush Fires Around Sydney. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 1

Bush fires were again raging around Sydney before 10 o'clock this morning. Firemen received many calls. In…

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Heat and Bush Fires Sydney’s Bad Day Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 1

Very trying weather was experienced in Sydney to-day. The temperature reached 98 degrees. A Melbourne report s[?]at[?] that the…

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London Dock Fire. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 2

The London dock fire was still burning this morning but it is well in hand. Ten fire engines and a hundred firemen are still working on…

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Big Queensland Fire. £8o,ooo DAMAGE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 4

A disastrous 'fire occurred at Nanbour, Queensland, on Saturday night, 16 buildings in the business quarter of the mam street being gutted. The…

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Mr. Legge's Fire. Inquest To-day

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 2

Mr. MacDougall, P.M., conducted an inquest to-day into the fire at Mr. F. C. Legge's shop on Monday night. Mr. Hugh Gerard (assessor)…

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Two Sydney Fires. £2,500 Damage at Factory. Dinner Party Disturbed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 2

A fire, the cause of which has not yet been ascertained, broke out at Ainsley's furniture factory, Liverpool Road, Ashfield to-night. The main…

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London’s Big Fire London, January 8 (Reuter S[?]ck)

The Daily Express · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 1

The Mg fire at [?] is still [?]ing but is well [?] hand and at is hoped to suppress it this afternoon The damage is catimated at…

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Fire at a Tannery. £35,000 Damage. Wellington (N.z.)

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 1

A fire in the suede shop at the Woolston tanneries caused £35,000 worth of damage. Despite the high wind, the fire…

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Bush Fires. Raging Ground. Sydney

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

Last season the country round Sydney and right up to the Mountains suffered severely from bush fires. Bush fires are again occurring this…

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Fire at Cootamundra Historic Building Gutted. Mr. F. C. Legge Burnt Out

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 4

Half an hour after Mr. F. C. Legge locked up his shop at Cootamundra on Monday night, fire was noticed near the main entrance door in…

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Dig Blaze at Dubbo

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

Several business establishments have been destroyed by fire at Dubbo…

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Fire at Coonabaradran

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

A fire at Coonabarabran last night destroyed seven business premises. The damage is estimated at several thousands of pounds…

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Short Story. Through Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

The woman regarded her husband with a look of resentment as he sat lazily on the verandah smoking, his face buried in the sporting news of…

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Big New Zealand Blaze. £35,000 Damage. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

A fire in the suede shop at the Woolston tanneries caused £35,000 damage. Despite a high wind the fire brigade succeeded in keeping the…

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Bask Fire at Grong Grong

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

Between 11 am and 12 noon on Saturday last a destructive fire broke out on Mr Jack Ball’s farm, near Grong Grong, burning 800 tons of [?] hay in stack and…

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