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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1943

340 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 17

Fatal Night Club Fire

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 April 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK April 11—Roscoe Barnett Welansky, owner of the Cocoannt, Grove night club, was convicted on 19 counts of…

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FIRES m Phoenix Park Cottage and Haysheds Destroyed

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 April 1943 · page 3

Following the destruction by fire of a hayshed and Its contents at Phoenix Park, Morpeth, yesterday morning a shed…

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Fatal Night Club Fire Owner Convicted

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 April 1943 · page 4

A message from New York says Roscoe Barnett Welansky, owner of the Cocoanut Grove night club, was convicted on 19 counts of…

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Dartbrook Bush Fire Brigade

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1943 · page 1

A special general meeting of members was held on 8th inst. Mr. W. T. Badgery (Captain and hon. Treasurer) presided. There were…

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Fire at Sawmill

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 2

Serious consequences were averted by the narrowest margin. during yesterday's windy conditions when a small fire broke out at Messrs. Gould…

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Clarence Town Fire

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 3

The Pesident reported that Mr. Broderick, headmaster and also warden of Clarence Town, had asked him to obtain the help of the Council in the…

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Sequel to Night Club Fire

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 1

BOSTON April 15—The Superior Court sentenced Barnett Welansty owner of the Cocoanut Grove Night Club to 15 years…

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Fires Started by Allied Bombers

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 3

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Saturday—Fires, visible for 60 miles, were started by Allied heavy bombers in a…

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Fire Near Gould Bros. Sawmills

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 April 1943 · page 4

SINGLETON Monday.—A fire believed to have started when a spark from a s[?]slag dumo used for making [?]caught…

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Boys Blamed for Fire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Wednesday—Two garages and a motor car were destroyed late yesterday afternoon at the year of a grocery store…

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£12,000 Fire Damage At Timber Mail

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 24 April 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY Saturday —Machinery and timber [?]12,000 was damaged by a fire which broke out at [?]…

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Big Fires Caused at Wewak

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1943 · page 3

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA . Allied air attacks In New Guines on Sunday were directed against the north-eastern costal ,[?] where…

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Inquiry in to Fires Cottage - Haysheds At Phoenix Park

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 April 1943 · page 3

An inqulry into the cause of fires which destroyed haysheds and a cottage at Phoenix Park will be conducted at the West…

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Destructive Fire

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 1

Mr. P. J. McLoughlin, of "Hunter's Valley," Ellerston, had the misfortune to have his. commodious shearing shed, together with…

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Fire Dancer in Raids

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 April 1943 · page 6

Experience in the United Kingdom had shown that following air raids 10 times more damage has been caused by fire than by high explosives…

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Swedish Invention New Fire-resisting Paint

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 1 May 1943 · page 4

A new fire-residenting paint was recently demonstrated in, Stock[?] by the inventor a Swedish engineer, Mr. Nile [?]…

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Two City Fires

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 May 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY Monday.—Damage estimated at about £80,000 was caused by two fires in the city on Saturday. The fires were…

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