Hayshed Destroye by Fire
GLOUCESTER: A fire d toyed a hayshed which canted four tons of hay a now threshing machine cultivator…
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Fires & bushfires, 1947
359 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 18
Tragic Cinema Fire in Paris
In a cinema fire at Rueil, a Paris suburb, 90 people were killed and 60 injured on Saturday night last…
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At about 2.15 a.m. this Monday morning (residents were awakened by the fire bell. The outbreak was at Barbouttis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →People Thought Aurora Was Distant Fire
Many people in Maitland, seeing the vivid red glow low in the southern sky shortly before 7-30 last night mistook it for a huge fire in…
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Attention is drawn to the imperative necessity for all sections of the community to unite in plans for the prevention of fires in the summer…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aurora Display Mistaken For Fire Glow
The colorful and spectacular display in the southern half of the sky on Wednesday night was not caused by the glow from a big…
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LONDON, Sept 5. — The death in hospital of an eight months’ old baby boy, and his brother, seed three, makes…
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Smoke escaping from under a door at J. A. Wild’s retail grocery store in Melbourne-st, East Maitland, was noticed about 12.30…
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SYDNEY, Wed. — The police are satisfied that a Are which, destroyed three tone of copra in the hold of a ship at Darling…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Prevention Week In U.S.
WASHINGTON (Associated Press) : Asserting that loss by fire has “almost doubled” during the past decade, President…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The “Cease Fire” In Indonesia
MELBOURNE, Thurs. — Four high-ranking Service officers left Laverton aerodrome by air this morning for Batavia, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Danger In Coal Mines
CESSNOCK, Friday—The recent heating up of No. 1 west section of Bellbird colliery, in the opinion of the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carrier Fires V-2 Rocket U.S. Navy Trials
For the first time, a V-2 rocket has been fired from a ship. The United States Navy announced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Powers Under Fires Act
SYDNEY, Tues.—To assist councils in organising against the danger of bush fires during the approaching season, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hospital Porter Fires On Escaping Thug
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Disturbed by a hospital porter when he broke into a mixed shop at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital last night, a man felled the porter with blows from a heavy stick, then crashed through a plateglass window to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Damage estimated at hundreds of pounds as done by a fire at the Norman Salon, a frock shop in George…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners has written to Lower Hunter Shire Council stating that the reduction in hours of duty of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Chief Secretary, Mr. Baddeley, assured a deputation from the Local Government and the Shires…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Horses Burned to Death in Stable Fire
Six valuable delivery horses were killed when straw bedding caught fire in brick stables at the rear of Mr. W. Johnston's bakery at…
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The chief architect (Mr. E. Rose) and chief electrician of the NSW Fire Brigade (Mr. Broadburst) visited Maitland and…
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