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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1925

2,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 104

£2000 Blaze Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 12

Machinery, hides, dressed leather, and buildings were damaged to the value of £2000 by a fire that razed the tannery of Dorrington, Railton and…

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Launch on Fire Owner's Lucky Escape

Evening News · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 9

When Donald Munro started the engine of his motor launch, which was anchored about 300 years off Gibborn Beach, [?] last night it…

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Big Fire Ballina Shops Destroyed Ballina

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 9

A disastrous tire occurred in the main business block about midnight. Two of the large stores in town, the premises of M'Cartney and O. H. Moore,…

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City Fire. Charge of Arson. Coroner's Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 6

The City Coroner Mr. Jamieson) commenced an in quiry yesterday into the origin of an outbreak of are at the premises of W. P. Welsh and Co., at Nos. 2 and 5 Burton-street, city, law on the night…

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Fire at Norfolk Island. Norfolk Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 6

A house owned by Mrs. Laing, and occupied by Mrs. Cunningham, was destroyed by fire last evening. It was insured with the New Zealand Insurance Company…

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Rescued From Fire Wellington (N.s.w.)

The Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 15

A singing teacher named Harry Nell, who boards with Mrs. Larum in Gisborne-street, on retiring last night at 7 o'clock accidentally set the bed alight…

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A Good Job of It Fire at Glebe Alleged Admission

Evening News · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 7

A [?] at [?] equity [?] the morning of July 24 was respectable for th appearnace of Phillips [?] motor driver at the…

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Disastrous Fire. at Ballina. Damage About £40,000. BALLINA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 9

A disastrous fire occurred last night, when six shops and a hotel were totally destroyed. The buildings burned were:—O. H. Moore's…

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"Good Job of It" Early Morning Fire Motor Driver Charged

The Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 9

An early morning fire from which a family escaped through the windows in their night clothes was the subject of a charge at the Central Criminal…

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Punchbowl Blaze

Evening News · Wednesday 25 March 1925 · page 6

A brick shop occurpi[?] by William Herd a grocer of Canterbury-road. Punchbowl was acver[?] damaged by fire to-day and a weatherboard…

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Fire at Lithgow. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1925 · page 16

On Monday morning a fire was discovered in the shop of A. Bow. The fire brigade turned out promptly and extinguished the outbreak by means of buckets of water. The damags…

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Fire in Perth. Damage Over £30,000. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1925 · page 16

A disastrous fire occurred at the two-story premises of Charles Atkins and Co., Ltd., Hay-street, at about a quarter to seven o'clock this morning. The damage is said…

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Punchbowl Blaze

Evening News · Thursday 26 March 1925 · page 5

A [?] weatherland other and Back-up shop in [?] road Panchbowi were destroyed by the early to-day…

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City Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 March 1925 · page 10

The early discovery of an outbreak of fire at the premises of Messrs.[?] Colin Campbell and Co., merchants, of 58 Harbour-street, city, probably prevented a rea[?] amount of…

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Harbor Street Fire Brigades' Good Save

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 March 1925 · page 5

Last night brigades from [?] Pyrment, and Newtown, turned out to a Are alarm at is Harbor Street. when morehandlse on the premises of…

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Fat in the Fire Boiling Down Works Alexandria Annoyed

Evening News · Thursday 26 March 1925 · page 8

"We should have stricter supervision over boiling down establishment." said Ald. Bowden, at Alexandria Council last night,…

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Fire Station

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 3

The Fire Commissioners, replying to Prospect and Sherwood Council's representations with regard to the erection of a brick fire station for Wentworthville…

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Fire District

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 3

An additional area has been allotted to Auburn Fire Brigade to supervise and protect. Its district has been extended to Joseph-street, Lidcombe, and…

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Fire at Picture Theatre

The Propeller · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 1

Jack Cairns, operator at the Albytn Picture Theater, Albyn Street, Bexley, was severely burned about the face and neck when a number of films caught fire…

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State Forests a Troublous Year Fires and Drought

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 12

The past year was not a good one from a State forestry point of view, and more than one" New South Wales State forest suffered from fire and…

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