Youth Killed Struck by Fire Engine
Tragody was associated with a blaze at an ironmongery store of J. Harrioson and Co., Rockhampion (Q) While dashing to the scene the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1931
632 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 32
Precautions Against Fire
Fire causes the loss of many trees, but although in forestry work on a big scale it is easily the most pronounced source of danger, in ordinary…
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Struck by a fire engine which was dashing to the scene of a blaze at an ironmongery store in Rockhampton (Q.) on Saturday David Jolly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspicious Fires Found in Homeville Cottage Five Rooms Former Outbreak Police Inquiring
The West Maitland police are inquiring into the circumstances surrounding a fire which occurred in a weatherboard cottage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Troops Fire Cyprus Rioters Reds Active Nicosia (Cyprus), Oct, 26
Troops were compelled to fire on rioters outside the Commissioner's office at Kyrenia. They were led by the Bishop of…
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Late yesterday afternoon Cessnock fire brigade was called out to an alarm from South Cessnock. Portion of the hedge which surrounded…
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Apparently caused by a spark from the engine of the Sydney express, afire broke out alongaide the railway line near Ivanhoe…
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A humpy occupied by a family named Cochrane at Moorefield, caught fire last night. When Mrs. Cochrane saw the flames…
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When a fire occurred early this morning in a humpy-occupied-by a family named Cochrano, tit Moorefield, a fouryear-old child was roscued from the…
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A small, unoccupied wooden cottage at Boolaroo was totally destroyed by fire at 3 a.m. to-day. The house, which had been…
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The timely detection of an out break of fire early this morning prevented a garage at Abbotsford being destroyed by fire…
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The first-bush fire of the year occurred on Tuesday, when about 600 acres of grass was destroyed. The ringing of the church bells…
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A haystack on the farm of Mr. W. M. Wallace, caught fire on Wednesday night, and as it was situated in close proximity to his hayshed, it naturally…
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Early this morning fire broke out, In promised at Enmoro, used by Edgar Charies rose as a bedstead factory, and destroyed about £1000…
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At 2.45 a.m. yesterday morning, Cessnock fire brigade was called out to a fire in a cottage situated at the corner of Macfarlane and Colliery…
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A haystack on the farm of Mr. W. M. Wallace caught fire on Wednesday night, and as it was situated in close proximity to his hayshed, naturally…
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Meeting of above held on Tuesday last. Present: Mr. W. T. Badgery (in the chair), Colonel J. R. C. Davies, and Messrs. H. Cowdery, A. Welsh…
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Hardie's rubber works, Paddington, were partly destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning; the damage being estimated at many thousands of…
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A warning against the danger of bush fires has been issued by the Director of Agriculture, who added, "owing to the extraordinary growth of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Commissioners. to Visit Muswellbrook
The Board of Fire Commissioners will visit Muswellbrook on Wednesday, 18th. inst., when Messrs. F. Schadel and J. C. Jeans, members of…
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