2Ck Bush Fire Fund Closes Over £300 Subscribed
The Cessnock 2CK Bush Fire Fund closed on Saturday night with a total of £301/6/11. This was a remarkable effort…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
642 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 33
Fighting Fires Demonstration At Katoomba
A demonstration of the methods used to fight bush fires, in which over 600 men from all parts of the State will participate, will take place at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mysterious Fires At Foundling Home MELBOURNE
Detectives investigating a series of mysterious fires that have occurred at the hospital questioned a young woman inmate of Broadmeadows…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →He Started Grass Fires. Because He Wanted Excitement
In admitting in the Mansfield Police Court (Vic.) that he had ignited grass fires, Raymond Joseph Wright, laborer, said that he had done so because…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Fighting Demonstration. 100 Brigades at Katoomba
A demonstration of the methods used to fight bushfires, in which over 600 men from all parts of the State will participate, will take place at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Fighting Demonstrations 100 Brigades at Katoomba
A demonstration of the methods used to fight bush fires, in which over 600 men from all parts of the State will participate, will take place at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire at Bellbird Four-roomed Cottage Destroyed
A four-roomed cottage and its contents was completely destroyed by fire at Bellbird on Friday afternoon. The outbreak occurred at the home…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Fighting Demonstration 100 Brigades at Katoomba
A demonstration of the methods used to fight bush fires, in which over 600 men from all parts of the State will participate, will take place at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Truck on Fire Men Have Narrow Escapes
Two men had narrow escapes from serious injury when the benzine tank of a burning truck exploded at Greaford last Friday. They were Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DISASTROUS N.Z. Fire Wellington (N.z.)
Many thousands or pounds damage was caused by a fire which destroyed portion of Thos. Borthwick's freezing works at Wairarapa. Hours elapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japs Threaten Liner "Halt Or We Fire" LONDON, Feb. 6
Japanese warships stopped the Brazilian liner Santarem off Chekiang under an order of "Halt or we fire." A boarding party locked…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Red Cross Special Appeal for Clothing Recent Disastrous Bushfires
At a meeting of the Red Cross Executive Committee, held recently at Headquarters, it was decided that the recent bushfires were a "national…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fire Fund Sydney
The Lord Mayor. Aid Nock, announced yesterday that the subscriptions to the Lord Mayors New South Wales Bush Fire Disaster Relief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petrol Bowsers on Fire Plucky Proprietor and Wife
Petrol bowsers, and a motor-cycle caught on fire at a motor service station at Toronto on Monday. The service station is in the business…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Breach Fires for Ventilation Fine Inflicted
R. A. Cant, of Dudley, was fined £2, with 8/ costs, when he appeared in the East Maitland Court to-day to answer a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Left Fire Burning Goulburn
An appeal by Cyril James Hayward, 39, against his conviction and sentence of three months' imprisonment on a charge of having left a fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Fighting Demonstration 100 Brigades at Katoomba
A demonstration of the methods used to fight bushfires in which over 600 men from all parts of the State will participate will take place at Katoomba between 28th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nurse Acquitted Threw Pearls On Fire Charge of Theft Auckland
Elizabeth Ellen Goodhue, 19, a probationary nurse, was found not guilty of the theft of a £265 pearl necklace, which, it was alleged,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Destroyed by Fire. Family's Misfortune. Lost Home in Bush Fires
A Victorian family having lost, their home in the disastrous hushfires in that State elected to make a new home in northern New…
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