The Creek And The Bush Fire
Watercourses are useful as firebreaks—but not always. The Bush Fires Advisory Committee reports that a small fire started in a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
312 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 16
Tivoli Theatre Fire Coroner Begins Inquest
Diana Hartt (19), who was burned in the Tivoli theatre fire on September 1. has not yet been told that the two other girls died as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Order to Surrender Arms Resented Indonesians Fire on British and Indians
Fighting between British and Indonesian forces broke out in Sourabaya yesterday for the first time in Java, when the Indonesians, resenting an order to surrender their arms, fired on British and Indian troops,…
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Watercourses are useful as firebreaks—but not always. The Bush Fires Advisory Committee reports that a small fire started in a paddock near…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—The Weather Bureau issued a bush fire warning to-day following rising temperatures…
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The danger of bush fires will again cause concern in the next few months, and an amended order she been issued by the Chief…
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There was a very large attendance of residents of Dartbrook at Dartbrook Hall on Friday, 26th, when it was decided to form a…
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The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, directs the attention of country people to the Regulation under the Careless Use of Fire Act, 1912, which…
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CESSNOCK Friday — A car owned and driven by Mr. Lance Elphinstone, of Cessnock, was destroyed by fire this morning…
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SYDNEY Sat—A four-year-old girl and hep one-year-old brother were burned to death in their cots at Fairfield West last night…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Heat wave conditions again operated in many parts of the State to-day and farther bush…
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Fires raged in dry grass and bush in and near the suburbs of Sydney at the week-end. Four homes were destroyed and four townships…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Fires look heavy toll at the week-end Three houses at Menai, a two-story home at Mosman, a house at Hurstville and a butcher’s shop Oatley were gutted by fires which sprang up in the wake of Saturday’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leaders: Hospital Needs The Fire Hazard Busy Scenes in Berlin ,Repairs Going Apace
BERLIN Nov. 5. — Berlin is ringing with the thud of [?]. mere, the drone of saws, and the bu[?] of drills as repairs to…
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AUCKLAND, Tuesday. — The favourite for the New Zealand Cup, Signal Officer, was badly singed during a fire at the stables…
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The mill owned by J. A. Croll and Sons and located in the forest seventeen miles out from Dungog was destroyed by fire on Saturday…
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Approximately 500 head of sheep and a few cattle were burned to death, a crop of 300 acres of wheat totally destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Fire brigades answered 38 calls bush and grass fores nearly every suburb yesterday, and averted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peeps Into the Past Singleton 15 Years Ago (From Issues of "Argus" dated Oct. 31, Nov 3 and 5, 1930). Fire at Railway Station
Quite a scare was created when news was circulated, that Singleton Railway Station was on fire. Inquiry disclosed that there was a fire 01…
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SYDNEY Thursday.— “The fire risk is extremely serious at the present time, and unless rain comes very soon the approaching…
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