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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1927

2,755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 138

Fire Victims Help for Soldier Settlers Albury

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10

Gifts of 110 bags of seed wheat, 20 bags of seed oats, 65 tons of hay and chaff, besides fence posts and building material were promised at a…

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The Scene Is Changed. After the Big Fire

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

There was no holiday rest for these men yesterday They were busy salvaging gas stoves from Mettcrs' disastrous fire and removing them to the other side of the road The year 1926 has been notable for the many serious outbreaks in Sydney principally in Clarence York Pitt and Gerge Streets Botany Annandale Marrickville and Mascot…

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Historic Chapel Destroyed by Fire LONDON, Monday, January 3

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 7

The historic Livingstone Congregational Chapel, at Stanford Rivers, Essex. has been destroyed through the accidental overturning of an oil lamp…

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Fire Fiends Mob Abducts Missionaries Woman Escapes Twice Buildings and Contents Set Ablaze

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

The outrage at Hain-Kwo-chow, where the Roman Catholic mission service on Christmas Day was stopped and the building burned, the missionary escaping by shaving off his beard, has been followed by the sacking of both the Catholic and the Wesleyan…

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Police Not Ready All in the "Dom" Rush to Metters' Lessons of Sunday's Fire

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

AN amusing police story Ilea behind the big fire which gutted Metiers' Building in Elizabeth Street on Sunday evening,…

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Bush Fire Relief. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 14

Mr. Ball, M.L.A., has submitted for the consideration of the Ministers for Lands and Agriculture, the following suggestions, advanced by the Walla Walla Progress…

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Starting of Bush Fires. Railways Blamed by Graziers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 11

The Graziers' Association has written to a number of its local committees asking whether they can give specific instances of the starting of bush fires by trains. Some replies have…

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Engine Sparks Farmers Claim £60,000 Bush Fire Damage Forbes

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

Acting for landowners in the district who have suffered in bush fires, Messrs. Broderick and Hunter, solicitors, of Forbes, have made claims…

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Destructve Fire at Wangi Morning Blaze Shop and Residence Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 6

Fire completely destroyed a weatherboard shop and residence, and went perilously close to engulfing a dance hall at Wangi in the small hours this…

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Mysterious Fire. Ulmarra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 14

The school residence, occupied by Mr. D. Byrne, was burnt to the ground on New Year's Night. Mr. and Mrs. Byrne are spending a holiday in Queensland, and their furniture and…

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Liverpool Fire House Ransacked

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 14

Pending further inquiries by the police the coroner's inquiry into this cause of a fire which occurred at M[?] Randell's house in George Street, Livers…

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Petrol Explodes, Fire, Man Burned

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 9

Perth, Wednesday. --Owing to an explosion of petrol, a motor garage at Hay -street, Sublaco, owned by J. Iles, was burned out late last night, Iles,…

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Jumble Sale For Fire Sufferers

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 12

The sale of goods sent to the C.W.A. headquarters at Burdekin House for bush Are sufferers did not commence yesterday until 10.30 a.m., but at 7…

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Metters' Fire Demolition of Walls

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 11

Early yesterday the task of molishing the walls of Metters' building, Elizabeth Street, which was gutted by fire on Sunday afternoon, was…

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Fire Starters The Railway Risk

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 11

The Graziers' Association has writtees asking whether they can give specific instances of the starting of bush fires by trains. Some replies have…

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City Fire. a Timely Discovery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 14

A quantity of kapok stored beneath the staircase in a building at 17 Hunter-street, city, was burning fiercely when brigades from headquarters and Circular Quay arrived…

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Arson Charge Five Fires m Building Police Make Arrest

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 14

Five fires were found by firemen at an outbreak in the premises of Laffin and Co.. printers. Oakes Building. Bathurst Street, late on Monday night…

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Highland Gathering. Cricket Extraordinary. Floods" and Fires. "Sydney Mail" Features

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 12

A good deal of pictorial prominence is given the Highland gathering on New Year's Day in the current issue of the "Sydney Mail." The picturesque Scottish garb rookes the…

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Fire in Bunkers Calulu Returns to Manila

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 3

Cable news was received in Sydney yesterday that the steamer Calulu, of B. B. Wiltshire's Bine, had put hack to Manila owing to a Are among the…

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Big Sydney Fire. Damage Estimated at £150,000

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 12

Metters' Building, a five-storied building Elizabeth-street, Sydney, was completely" gutted by fire last Sunday afternoon. The alarm was given about 4…

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