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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1937

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Local and General News Fire on Sedgefield-road

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 6

A fire occurred on Sedgeileld-road about 4 p.m. on Monday afternoon, when the slaughterhouse of Messrs Brooker Bros., butchers, and an…

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Fire Brigades Display at Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 6

Representatives of four brigades in the Maitland [?] district, left to-day for Tamworth to take part in the New South Wales Fire Brigade…

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Camp Fire Precautions

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 2

From the numerous reports received from country service stations of the R.A.C.A., it is apparent that many campers and tourists do not…

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Petrol Blaze Car Hits Bowser SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 1

A fire broke out in Parramatta-road, Homebush, to-day after a petrol pump had been [?] by a car. The car, which was driven by…

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Fire Protection in Shire

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 2

Mr H. K. Pollack, the Shire Council's clerk, recently despatched to the Fire Commissioners a list of-the-various annual assessed values of…

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Fire Brigades Tamworth Carnival New Records Tamworth, Friday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 5

Two new records were established by Narrandera When the N.S.W. Volunteer Fire Brigades" Demonstration was continued at…

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Outbreak of Fire Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 5

About 6.30 on Saturday night the kurri Fire Brigade received a call to an cuibreak of fire in an outhouse at the rear of Hooter's butcher's shop in…

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Fire at West Cessnock

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 5

Shortly after 8 o'clock last Friday night a fire occurred at a seven - roomed weatherboard cottage, situated in…

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Unknown Warship Fires On Steamer LONDON, March 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 1

The Admiralty stated that an unnamed steamer reports having been fired upon by an unknown warship in the Bay…

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Internal Combustion. Hay Stacks Destroyed by Fire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 4

Four small stacks of hay, owned by Messrs. A. Weidmann and Co., Ltd., were destroyed by fire on Thursday last. The outbreak was believed to…

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£10,000 INVOLVED Graziers To Recover Wool Store Fire Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 6

An important judgment was delivered by the Full Court in a case on the result of which approximately £10,000 depended…

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Factory Fire at Forest Lodge Damage Estimated at Thousands of Pounds Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 2

Damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused by a fire which broke out in a factory of Standard Sweets, Forest Lodge, late last night…

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Fell Into Fire Grafton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 2

When Mrs. Catherine Taylor 64, suffered a seizure and into the fire her home at P[?]ay her head face and hands come into contact with…

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Forest Fires Protection of Adjoining Settlement

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 4

The Minister for Mines and Forests (Mr. Vincent) referring to the request of the Primary Producers' Union, that the Forestry Commission should…

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Three Perish in Fire Only One Identified

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

The bodies of three persons were found in the ruins of a dilapidated, abandoned house on the banks of the Taieri River at Henley, Otago (N.Z.),…

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Morpeth Fire District

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 4

Mr. A. Jery, of Raworth, wrote to Tarro Shire Council, that the majority of residents of Murpeth-road did not favor being [?] in the morpeth…

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Murder Charge Camp Fire Fracas SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 1

Before Mr. Justice navin, in the Central Criminal Court to-day, James wears, 16, a laborer appeared on a charge of having murdered James…

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"Trapped by a Bush Fire."

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 7

It was a hot, stuffy clay in January and I decided to take a walk in a forest which surrounded our homestead. I wandered for a mile or so,…

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Car Catches Fire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 5

In swerving a car to avoid home straying cattle on the Paxton-road shortly after mid. night on Wednesday night…

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London's Fire Toll

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 1

Figures published the other day show that the London Fire Brigade attended 4732 fires in 1936—440 fewer than in the previous year-though the…

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