Main Street Burnt Out Coonamble Fire Damage Estimated at £150,000 COONAMBLE
ALL that is left of the main business avenue of Coonamble--Cas--[?] Street--is a mass of charred ruins due to a the which broken out in…
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Coonamble Main Street Scene of £200,000 Blaze
This view, looking down the main street, Coonamble, shows where the disastrous fire started lott night, in the School of Art, marked with the arrow on the right. A concrete building on the left of the School of Art stopped the fire from spreading in that direction, but the flames swept across and down the street. The whole of the building shown, with the exception of the two on the extreme right, were destroyed…
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In reply to a letter from Fairfield (Council, the Blue Metal Quarries Coy recently wrote stating that it was taking every precaution against sparks from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coonamble Now Presents Picture of Desolation £200,000 Fire Damage Blaze Has Burned Itself Out 36 Shops :2 Homes Destroyed
ALTHOUGH the disastrous fire at Coonamble, involving £200,000 damage, had burnt itself out at an early hour to-day, the local fire fighters were still on guard, after having battled desperately all night with the blazing…
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Fire destroyed Pickering's [?] garage and workshop at Rutherglen, a number of motor cars being burnt. Damage is estimated at £5000…
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As the result of lightning striking a tree, a grass fire broke out on Mr. W. Turner's property at Red Bluff, near Huon, but the fighters arrested the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Art Union Proposal For Auburn Hospital Dissatisfied with Fire Brigade's
"We should hold aloof from the Fire Brigade Art Union and institute one of our own," declared Mrs. H. Crockford, it the annual meeting of the Auburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Fire. At Coonamble. £200,000 DAMAGE. 40 Buildings Burnt. COONAMBLE
The most disastrous fire in the history of Coonamble occurred to-night, the principal business block in the centre of the town being devastated…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Heroic Girls Fight Raging Fire Coonamble Gutted 38 Buildings Are Destroyed Coonamble
All that remains of the business centre of Coonamble this morning is one lonely building--the Commercial Bank--which stands like a gigantic salamander amid the blackened ruins of its companions in Castlereagh-street…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Big Country Town Completely Swept By Fire Coonamble Business Houses Gutted Thirty-three Places Wiped Out in Gale Hundreds Fight Hopelessly
Damage estimated at over £200,000 was caused, and 33 business premises were completely gutted, when fire, fanned By a strong wind, swept through Coonamble last night…
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More than 100 landowners in Sutherland shire have been called upon to clear their land of scrub to prevent bush fires, acording to a report from the president…
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Once again wide areas of the State have been devastated by fierce bush fires. Pasturage--such as there was-- standing crops, and garnered harvests…
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Mr. J. Manion, the District Coroner, conducted an inquiry into the recent bush fire at Pejar, when great losses were sustained by Pejar graziers, and…
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More than 60 wives and daughters of Fire Brigade station-officers assembled in the private room at David Jones' yesterday afternoon, when a meeting was called to elect a…
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At the Police Court yesterday, Rita Marks, of Canberra, who with her husband, was camped at Wee Jasper during the Christmas week, was fined for leaving a fire in the…
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A fire which broke out to-night at the bulk store of H. C. Steigh, Albert Park, spread to the motor assembly plant of Millingen and Co. Fifty thousand gallons of cased petrol…
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Small damage was done to a refreshment shop occupied by Mrs. M. A. Lord. High Street. Maitland by fire early this morning. Fitting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disastrous Fire at Coonamble Causes Damage Estimated at £250,000
THE MAIN STREET IN WHICH ALL BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED TATTERSALLS HOTEL WHICH WAS IN THE MAIN STREE[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Coonamble Fire. £250,000 Damage. Business Centre Gutted. Coonamble
Losses from yesterday's disastrous fire are estimated at about £250,000. Most of the chief business establishments were wiped out…
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To the already formidable list of conf[?]agrations in country towns this summer was added another disaster on Wednesday night, when…
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