Fire at Kitchener
During the early hours of Wednesday morning an unoccupied cottage at Kitchener, owned by Mr. Harry Wetzler, of…
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Fires & bushfires, 1938
601 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 29 of 31
Fish Market Gutted Newcastle Fire NEWCASTLE
When fire broke out last night the Interior of premises occupied as a fish market in Scott-street, Newcastle, was gutted…
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Because his work at a farm at East Hanningfleld, Essex (Eng.), had been unsatisfactory, a 17-year-old bourer, Frederick William Fitzgerald,…
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The East Maitland Fire Brigade was called out this morning to two grass fires on vacant allotments. One outbreak in an allotment at the…
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A fire occurred at Mr. Val. Heaton's "Williewarrina" property, near Pine Ridge, destroying about 19 acres of standing wheat and five bags of wheat…
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Bush fires continue to be active at Broke, and have caused much concern and worry to many landholders. As well as previously reported…
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The West Maitland Fire Brigade was called out to a fire in rubbish and undergrowth in a paddock at the rear of Mrs. Barden's store in Regent-street…
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"Now that the camping and picknicking season is with us again, I think it is necessary that all motorists should be asked to…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out at about 2.30 this morning to O'Brien-street, Cessnock, where an unoccupied weatherboard cottage was…
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At about 1.30 p.m. yesterday the brigade was called out to cope with a fire in some grass and rubbish at the rear of…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out at 2.35 this morning to a fire in an unoccupied [?]roomed weatherboard co[?]age…
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A fire, which broke out in residential flats above the departmental stores of Storey Pty. Ltd., in the main section of Condailly-street, Gunnedah,…
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The value of the telephone in emergency, and the motor car as a modern means of transport, was demonstrated at Broke on Monday night in…
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At the last meeting of the Shire Council a letter was received from Mr F. Hamilton Flory, of Combo, in which he complained of alleged…
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A fire which broke out in residential flats above the departmental stores of Storey Pty. Ltd., in the main section of Conadilly-street,…
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When Kearsley Shire Council met last night it discussed the matter of clearing the permanent reserve of dangerous scrub as a protection against…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners proposes to spend £536 in Narrabri in the coming year in connection with the volunteer brigade and maintenance…
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Grass fires surrounding Dungog have been a source of alarm during the week, but Wednesday and Thursday brought lower temperatures, the…
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A fire at Pepperwell House, Castlereagh-street, Sydney, ooccupied by a renovating furniture company and other firms, was…
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It is not known how the outbreak occurred. Four boys who were sleeping in the front room on the top floor of the two-storey…
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