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Southern Highlands · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1913

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Man on Fire in the Street

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 3

While George Girvan, a coalman, was lighting his pipe near Golder's Green tube station, his hands, which were covered with coal dust moistened with oil, caught fire. He…

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Bowral Fire Brigade

Robertson Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1913 · page 2

On Thursday evening the Divisional officer, Mr. G. H. Dadd, visited the local brigade for quarterly inspection and drill, Capt. Huggett…

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Fire Drill

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 December 1913 · page 4

Factory Proprietor: "Fire drill, if you please, ladies! Division A will endeavor to batter down that locked iron door; Division B will leap from the windows; Division C will remain quietly at the tables until suffocated—all…

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