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Sydney · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1927

2,755 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 138

Three Outbreaks Fire at Parkes PARKES

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 9

Three different outbreaks of fire were discovered in a house occupied by Mr. A. M'Guinness and family, in Bushman Street…

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Precautions against Fire at Official Opening of Parliament

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 19

Arrangements have been made with the Police Department[?] N.S.W., to provide adequate police to deal with the anticipated density of traffic. Those…

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Cycle Catches Fire Two Men Injured Lane Cove Road

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 1

When a motor cycle. which was being ridden by two men. capsized In Lane Cove. Road. Lane Cove, yesterday, it caught fire, and [?]nned…

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City Fire. £20,000 DAMAGE. Burgin Electric Co., Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 11

A fire which broke out late last evening did damage estimated at more than £20,000 to the five-story building of the Burgin Electric Company, Ltd., 340 Kent-street, city…

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Bush Fire Relief. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 16

The fund opened for the relief of sufferers by the recent disastrous bush fires in the Walbundrie district now exceeds £400 in cash and donations of wire netting, manures,…

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Bush Fires Farmers' Self-help the Bush Brigades

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 5

Evidence of successful measures taken in the Parkes district to confine potential outbreaks of bush fires was given before the Royal Commission on…

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Burnt Out Junee

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 9

RECENTLY the townspeople got up a benefit for James Egan, a returned maimed soldier, and started him on a small…

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Fire Brigade Procession

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 10

The evolution of a modern fire brigade can be traced in the demonstration to be given at 1 p.m. to-day in Martin Place, in connection with the…

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Sydney's Big Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 9

Mr. BURGIN of the Burgin Electric Co., on the left, discussing the outbreak with the insurence men…

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Burgin Electric Fire

The Sun · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 18

Business is not being interrupted at the Burg[?]n Electric Company's premises, 340 Kent-street, where a fire occurred last Monday night. The whole…

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Fire Brigade's Display

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 19

The New South Wales Fire Brigades Hospital and Ambulance Art Union, 1927, will be inaugurated at 1 p.m. to-day, when a display of ancient and modern fire-fighting methods…

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Burgin's Fire Illuminations Saved

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 5

One fortunate feature of the big fire at the Burgin Electric Company's premises. 340 Kent Street, on Monday night, wan the fact that a large…

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Fire Brigades Helping Hospitals

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 7

THE Chief Secretary will break a flag at the top of an 85ft electric ladder, which in to be run up in Martin Place this afternoon…

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Fire at Young. Voung

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 16

About 2 o'clock this morning a fire destroyed a cottage in Currawong-street, belonging to Ernest Edward Hargreaves. The building and contents were reduced to ashes…

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City Fire. Broadcasting Station Destroyed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 15

Tho whole plant of broadeasting station. 2BE. was destroyed in Monday evening's fire, at the Burgin Electric Company's building. 340 Kent-street. It will be some time before…

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Saved From Fire Decorations for Duke

Evening News · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 7

ONE fortunate feature of the fire at the Burgin Electric Company's premises, [?]40 kent-street, on Monday [?]ght, was the fact that a large…

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Real Alarm Fire Engine Display Fun to Earnest

The Sun · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 15

Two seconds after it returned from the Martin-place display, the big motor fire-engine of the Castlereagh-street…

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Soldiers Fire on U.S.A. Destroyer Incident at Wuhu Peking

Evening News · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 1

WHEN Chinese soldiers interfered with a Standard Oil Company's launch near Wuhu, the American destroyer Prebles…

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Bush Must Be Aided in Fire-fighting Past Negligence How Settlers Suffer

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 4

MANY popular beliefs as to the cause of bush fires were described as fallacies by a graster at the Bush Fires Commission…

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Bushfires. Menace of Trains. Evidence to Commission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 17

The danger of passing locomotives causing bush-fires in country districts was the chief feature of the evidence given yesterday by landholders before the Royal Commission that…

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