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Fires & bushfires, 1927

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Enquiry Into Yanco Fire

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 16 September 1927 · page 1

At the Leeton Courthouse, on Friday last, the coroner, Mr. W. C. Barker, J. P., conducted an enquiry into the origin of the fire…

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Important to Country Fire Brigades

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 16 September 1927 · page 4

The President of the Board of Fire Commissioners of N.S.W. (The Hon. [?] Smith [?] visited [?] on the [?] September, 1927, and…

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Wollongong Fire An Arrest Made WOLLONGONG

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 September 1927 · page 1

Following a fire in Jubilee Garage shortly after midnight on Saturday, the police have arrested a local resident on a charge of incendiarism. The…

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Early Morning Blaze at Young

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 2

The violent and prolonged ringing of the fire bells and the shrill whistling of the railway engines awakened Young from its slumbers in the very…

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School Destroyed by Fire

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

About midnight on Sunday a fire occurred at the the Malebo Pulblic School and school house. Both buildings were completely destroyed. The…

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Tent on Fire Three Children Burned NARROMINE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 3
Also in Daily Advertiser

While John Henry Pattison and his wife and three young children were sleeping in a tent, the flame of a candle set fire to the canvas…

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Starr Bowkett Case "A Succesful Fire". SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 September 1927 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court, Albert Henry Tyldesley was charged with having forged and uttered receipts in connection with the affairs…

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Bush Fires Outbreak in Queensland Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 6

Further particulars of the bush fires in the Esk district show that two homesteads at Beechmont narrowly escaped destruction. Practically the…

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Twenty Deaths Convent Fire in U.S.A. VANCOUVER

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 1

A Prince Albert (Saskatchewan) message states that one nun and 12 children were burned to death when a fire destroyed a Roman Catholic…

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Early Morning Blaze Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 26 September 1927 · page 1

At 5 this morning David Thompson, an employee of the City Council, noticed smoke issuing from one of the side windows of one of the old…

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Fatal Fire Woman Victim to Flames Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 September 1927 · page 2

Ethel Maud Landers, aged 48 years, was burnt to death when a fire destroyed her home at Woollahra at 4.80 o'clock this morning. At that hour…

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Woollahra Fire Woman Trapped And Perishee in Flames SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 26 September 1927 · page 1

ETHEL MAUD LANDERS, aged 43; was burnt to death when a fire destroyed her home at Woolfahra at 4.30 on Sunday morning…

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Multiplicity of Fires. Cessnock

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1927 · page 2

Damage to the extent of £3000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a ham and beef shop and an outfitter's store early to-day: This is the seventeenth…

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Multipllicity of Fires Cessnock

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 27 September 1927 · page 1

Damage to the extent of £3000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a ham and beef shop and an outfitter's store early yesterday. This is the…

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Disastrous Fire Premises at Binya Gutted

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 27 September 1927 · page 3

A disastrous fire at Binya early Thursday morning totally destroyed a billiard room and two shops, occupied by Mr. B. P. Clarice, and Messrs…

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General Telegrams Fire in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1927 · page 2

Several thousand pounds' worth of damages was caused by a fire which broke out in old stone buildings, Circular Quay, this morning. The…

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Disastrous Fire Chaff Mill Burnt Out

Ariah Park News · Thursday 29 September 1927 · page 3

On Monday night at about 11 p.m the Ariah Park Mill was discovered to be on fire, and by 12.30 a.m. was [?]aised to the…

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Fire at Gundagai

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 September 1927 · page 2

Whilst the football match was in progress yesterday a weatherboard house at Jones's Creek was in full blaze within view of the spectators,…

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