Pig Industry Care When Marketing FIRE-BRANDING
For whatever purpose pigs are marketed (whether as porkers or bacon pigs), it is highly desirable that before leaving the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
642 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 33
£25,000 DAMAGE Fire At Surrey Hills Neighbours Flee
When a fire destroyed a tour storied building at the corner of Crown and Jesmond streets, Su-rey Hills, last night, damage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Surry Hills Damage Between £20,000 and £25,000
Damage between £20,000 and £25, 000 was caused when a fire destroyed a four-storied building at the corner of Crown and Jesmond Streets, Surry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Constable Fires: Suspected Thug Wounded Sydney
When Constable J. Hile was forced to shoot to prevent a suspect from striking him on the head with a full bottle of beer, the man was wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hotel Fire Guests Escape In Night Attire MELBOURNE
Guests at the Upper Yarra Hotel, at Walsh's Creek, via Warburton, escaped in their night attire when fire destroyed the main building and one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Blaze Imperial Flying Boat Destroyed LONDON, June 19
The Imperial Airways Flying Boat the Connemara, caught fire and was destroyed at Hythe. while being refuelled preparatory to carrying out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Catches on Fire Mishap At Clarence Town
Just out of Clarence Town, towards Glen Oak, there is a very thoughtful husband. Yesterday he was doing the ironing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flying Boat Destroyed. Caught Fire While Feulling. London
The Imperial Airsways flying boat Connenara caught fire and was destroyed at Hythe when refuelling preparatory to carrying out tests. One man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kalgoorlie Man Fires Shots Policeman and Roadmen Run for Cover
A man who is alleged to have fired four shots from a military type of rifle at Kalgoorlie was arrested and charged with being of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Country Party Rooms Sydney
A fire occurred this morning in the Country Party rooms in State Parliament House. The outbreak was soon subdued…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Roof At Parliament House Lasted an Hour Sydney
A fire occurred this morning in the roof of the Country Party rooms of State Parliament House. The Speaker, Mr. Weaver, mounted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Party Rooms at Parliament House. Threatened by Fire
A fire which threatened the Country Party rooms at Parliament House yesterday was quickly quelled by firemen. The fire had probably smouldered for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hospital Fire Put Out by Nurses
Nurses extinguished a fire on Monday in the kitchen of the Braeside Private Hospital, in Cambridge-street, Stanmore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£10,000 FIRE Big Factory Gutted SYDNEY
A Quantity of valuable machinery was destroyed when a fire gutted a three-storied building occupied by Griffiths Fruit Supply Pty. Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →4000 Men Fight Huge London Fire London, June 27
Damage estimated at millions of pounds sterling was caused by the biggest fire since 1897 when four warehouses near Aldersgate underground station were gutted, and a number of others severely damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Fire in London Entire Fighting Forces Utilised. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
The biggest fire since 1897 engaged the entire fighting forces of the London fire brigades. Four huge warehouses near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Burns Woman's Nightdress On Fire SYDNEY
Miss Edith Emily Perdrian, 64, of Burwood, was fatally burned when her nightdress caught fire at her home…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Airport Fire Six 'Planes Burnt In Brisbane ERISBANE
Several private machines were among the six planes destroyed when Quantas Empire Airways' No. 2 hangar at Archerfield Aerodrome…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saved by Canary Warning of Fire MELBOURNE
Awakened early in the morning by the excited chirping of a canary, eight sleepers on the upper floors of the Colonial Bank Hotel, In Little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fuse Blamed Camperdown Blaze SYDNEY
The fire which broke out last night in Kilner's furniture storage building at Camperdown, is still smouldering. A fuse in an electric sign is…
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