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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
359 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 18
Menaced by falling pieces of blazing timber, 20 firemen from three brigades battled for more than an hour to control a fire which practically destroyed Northmead Eublic School at 2.30 a.m. to-day. Immediately after the fire, which caused thousands of pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUCKLAND, Tuesday. — The charred body of a young miner, who was missing after a fire destroyed a hotel at Ohnra, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday— Detective are in vestigating the theory that the which destroyed a furniture factory in Maine Avenue, East Hills, at 4. a.m. to-day, causing damage estimated at £1300, was deliberately starte d. The fire was the second in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Three boys, aged 12, 13, end 14 were arrested In the scrub at North mead early to-day by Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BATAVIA, August 5 (A.A.P.-Reuter). — Indonesia’s 15 days of hospitalities ended at midnight when the Republican President, Dr. Soekarno, broadcast a message to cease fire to the Republican army and fighting population…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON.—Further anti-Jewish demonstrations occurred in Liverpool on August Bank Holiday in two areas, where on the previous night serious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A small grassfire broke out in Copper’s paddock at Horseshoe Bend to-day the alarm being given to Maitland Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGAPORE, August 6 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Addressing the Indonesian Parliamentary working committee on foreign affairs last night, the Indonesian Premier, Dr. Sjariffuddin, charged the Dutch with the first violation if the “case fire”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lower Hunter Shire . Council' has decided to supply for Miller’s Forest and. Dukenfield to be included in the Raymond Terrace fire district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY Thurs—District Fire Brigade Officer J. Knox of Brigades Headquarters was critically injured to-day when he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Carey, of "Issisfallen," Murrurundi, suffered a serious loss in the early hours of Tuesday last, when their fine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Aug. 8.—A fire which broke but in the engineroom of the Paulo [?]ner Ranchi at Southampton new docks was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Aug 10.—Lloyd’s agents at Marseilles say that a fire broke out on the Panamanian steamer Gloria, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WERRIS CREEK, Mon.—The most serious fire ever to occur at Werris Creek caused damage estimated at £5000 early this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WERRIS CREEK: Damage estimated at £5000 was caused when fire destroyed the Werriston Theatre at Werris Creek. The fire is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BATAVIA, August 13.—Dutch airborne forces, including paratroopers, landed in West Java last Wednesday, and are mopping up the whole of the Prianger district, between Bandung and the province of Bajumas, a Republican communique broadcast last night asserted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SINGLETON, Thurs.—The Volunteer Fire-Brigade, extinguished a grass fire under the railway bridge behind the butter factory yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DESPITE the fact that winter conditions continue to prevail throughout the Hunter Valley it is by no means…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There are indications that an early danger from bush fires is likely to develop in parts of the State, states the Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, August 15.—“A new star arises—the star of freedom in the East. May the star never set and hope never be betrayed.” declared the Prime Minister of the new Dominion of India, Pandit Nehru, in a message from New Delhi to India’s 300,000,000…
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