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South Coast · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1906

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A Flourishing Fire Office

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 6

The facts and figures disclosed at the twenty-eighth annual meeting of the shareholders of the Mercantile Mutual Fire Insurance Coy., Ltd., were…

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[?] Fire Office

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 2

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Fire Brigades Bill

The Bega Budget · Saturday 29 September 1906 · page 3

At a recent meeting of the Bathurst City Council a letter was read from Mr. W. Taylor, the representative of suburban…

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The Proposed Fire Brigades Bill

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 10 October 1906 · page 2

THE genius who drafted the proposed Fire Brigades Bill might be tomahawked, and embalmed as a monument in mummy form to…

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Strange Fire. Contents of a "Box Burning. Suspected Incendiarism

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1906 · page 3

A strange fire, reports the "Daily Mail," of July 30th, occurred last night at the Cranbouro street, W.C., Post Of-fice. One of the residents above the post…

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The Great Whisky Fire. Streams of Burning Spirit

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 20 October 1906 · page 7

Never in the history of Dundee has a fire of such dimensions been witnessed as that which, as reported in the "Daily Mail" of 21st July,…

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Art Treasures Burnt. Fire at Milan Exhibition

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 24 October 1906 · page 2

The Building of Decorative Art at the Milan Exhibition was destroyed by fire on 3rd August, in consequence of a defect in the electric light wiring…

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Municipal Conference. the Fire Brigades Bill. “A Snur to Every Municipality.”

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 25 October 1906 · page 4

The Mayor of Kiama has convened a conference for Tuesday next, at Kiama, of the Municipal Councils within the…

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Strange Fire. Contents of a Box Burning. Suspected Incendiarism

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 5

A strange fire, reports the “Daily Mail,” of July 30th, occurred last night at the Cranbourn street, W.C., Post Office…

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Fortescue's Bush Fire-fighter

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 31 October 1906 · page 8

The appalling calamities that have been occasioned by bush fires in Australia are a constant source of terror to the pastoralist and as the summer…

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Fire at Sea

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 5

Mr. Henry Bligh, an old Bega boy, and brother of Mr. A. C. V. Bligh, of Bunga, recently had an experience, being a passenger on board…

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The Fire Brigades Bill

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1906 · page 4

The conference of South Coast municipal councils which was to have been held at Kiama on Tuesday last for the purpose of discussing…

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Man on Fire on Telegraph Wires

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 3

A telegraph linesman, John Wilson, was terribly burned at Kogarah. He was working on wires just outside the post-office…

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Fire Risks

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 7

It is all very well to be blessed with beautiful seasons, and to have climatic guarantees of prosperity, but uneasy lies the head of the reaper of fine…

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Disastrous Fire at Worrigee. MR. J. Apperley's Home Destroyed

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 21 November 1906 · page 6

On Sunday afternoon, just before 7 o'clock, the residence of Mr John Apperley, sen., at Worrigee, was burnt to the ground, and practically all the contents…

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Destructive Fire. Mr. John Apperley’s Residence Totally Destroyed

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 22 November 1906 · page 2

The residence of Mr. John Approve sen., at Worrigee, togeather with most of its contents was burnt top the ground up Sunday…

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Fire Brigade

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 4

A competition in one-man drill is to be held on Wednesday next by members of the Nowra Volunteer Sire Brigade for a trophy presented…

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Fire Carts

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 November 1906 · page 8

Australia is at the present in the enjoyment of one of the most bountiful seasons in the history of the country, which, following upon…

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The Recent Wor Rigee Fire

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 29 November 1906 · page 2

From statements made by Mr John Apperley and his daughter, it would now appear that the fire which recently resulted in the…

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Fire Risks

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 30 November 1906 · page 5

It is all very well to be blessed with beautiful seasons, and to have climatic guarantees of prosperity, but uneasy lies the head of the reaper of line…

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