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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1939

642 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 33

Shops Gutted Fire in Queensland BRISBANE

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 December 1939 · page 2

A fire gutted three business premises and two empty shades at Oakey, near Toowoomba. H. G. Kath's grocery store, a…

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Insuring Wheat Crops Against Hail and Fire Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 December 1939 · page 1

The compulsory insurance of wheat crops against hail and fire such as that proposed by the deputy leader of the Federal…

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Fire Losses £250,000 In Sydney And Suburbs Year's Statistics Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 December 1939 · page 8

Figures released by the New South Wales Fire Brigades Board show that in the city and suburbs, the brigades had been called to…

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Revolt Reported Among Soviet Troops Finns Again Do Well Red Soldiers Fire on Comrades Helsinki, December 29

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 30 December 1939 · page 5

Finland is decidedly holding her own, heartened by the semi-official news that a revolt has broken out in the Russian lines, due to defective discipline, and that troops in the…

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