Shed Damaged by Fire
Fire slightly damaged a shed and fencing at the rear of premises occupied by Mr. E. C. Prices in Hunter-street. West…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
359 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 18
151 Fires Last Year
There were 56 fires in Maitland, 34 at Kurri, and 61 at Cessnock, a total of 151 last year, according to figures released to-day by…
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BERLIN, Jan. 6.—Twenty-five miners, including sue German prisoners of war, were killed in a fire in a Silesian…
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LONDON, January 6—Although No. 5 hold of the Shaw, SavilI and Albion line’s 15,000-ton liner Corinthic was gutted during…
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LONDON, January 6.—As the result of a fire which broke out on the new liner, Corinthic, which was nearing completion in the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird and Coy., there will now be considerable delay before the…
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BATAVIA, January [?].—“This is the gravest development since the signing of the truce on October 16,” declared the Indonesian Republication…
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NEW YORK. Jan. [?]—One of New York’s costliest waterfront blazes for years destroyed two Bu[?] River piers, causing damage…
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A small wooden dwelling in Vennacher street, the home of Mrs. Jane Solly, was completely destroyed by fire at about 9 p.m. on New Year's…
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Considerable excitment was caused by a fire which destroyed a disused blacksmith shed in Market Lane on Friday night last. The building…
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HERFORD (Germany), January 11.—German police fired over the heads of 300 coal train looters at Grevenbrotch, near Cologne, after the crowd had pelted with lumps of civilians who attempted to disperse the looters…
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SYDNEY, Monday. Members of the police arson squad went to Orange to-day to inquire into a fire in a cottage occupied by…
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Sixteen of 20 people arrested in the' city and at Darlinghurst last night for drunkenness had been drinLing methylated spirits…
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PARIS, Jan. 13—Indo-China is not being put to “fire and sword” and difficulties there can be solved…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. — Five RAAF planes will “bomb“ a bushfire about a mile from Anglesey on Thursday afternoon to…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The RAAF will carry out a big test on the efficiency of combating bushfire from the air when six…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to a Fire off Sperry Street yesterday, where some fencing, grass, and rubbish were blazing…
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SYDNEY: Mr. J, D. Peach, of Lockhart, had a remarkable escape when double-barrel shotgun went off in both barrels due…
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GLOUCESTER: A fire broke out on the outbuildings of.. Mr. Cecil Farley’s farm at Xiora, Gloucester, and completely…
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SINGLETON, Monday—Singleton Volunteer Fire Brigade on Saturday night saved two P.M.G trucks and a car from being…
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A fire broke out about 10.15 on Saturday evening in a shed in the real, of the yard of the premises occupied by Mrs D. Blick, in John…
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