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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
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JERUSALEM, December 3.— Haganah organisation fire squads stood by in Zion Square last night in case the Arabs broke out of the curfew which the British authorities clamped down on the Arab quarter after a day of rioting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—The Civil Aeronautics Administration announced that an investigation showed that the overflow of petrol…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUCKLAND: Trapped under a wharf by blazing oil on Auckland Harbour, Peter Baron, 7[?] ship’s ,watchman, was badly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BATAVIA, December 10 (AAP-Reuter).—A crisis over the implementation of the Security Council’s “cease fire” resolution on Indonesia may develop this week, according to well-informed source close to the negotiators on the U.S. Navy transport Renville The possibility of these…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.— A tram and a truck loaded with ice collided at Burnside and burst into flames…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BATAVIA. December 11 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Well-informed Republican sources said that the former Premier Sotan Stabrir. who is at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—After a dramatic 10-hour fight, 50 firemen from five Newcastle brigades early this morning managed to quell the fires which raged in No. 1 hold of the steamer, Time, and later spread to No. 2 hold,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A letter from the Board of Fire commissioners to Cessnock, Council on Wednesday night revealed that the Minister had sanctioned the Statutory limit of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Council has decided to investigate the possibility of having the district included in a new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Board of Fire Commissioners furnished Maitland City Council with an estimate of expenditure in the Maitland are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The annual general meeting of the above was held at Mooby Bridge, near Puen Buen, on Saturday, December 6, 1947, at 10…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bed and bedding were destroyed by “fire and a bedroom damaged by heat and smoke when a fire broke out in Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — John Francis Smith, who was severely burned in a vain effort to rescue his 13-month-old Roy, from a blazing pram at his Liverpool home yesterday, has not been told that the child is dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hundreds of tons of wheat, bran, pollard, and other produce, were destroyed when N.S.W. Producers' Co. Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JERUSALEM, DEC. 24.—Arab gunmen fired on the funeral of a British-born Jew, who had been murdered In Jerusalem on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A man and his wife will forego their first Christmas holiday together for 20 years, because of a fire which caused…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK, Monday.—A fire, which broke out in a shed at the rear of the American Dry Cleaners, Vincent-street, Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Headed by the huge toll of the Texas City explosion last April, fire and plated disasters cost the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HONGKONG, December 29 (AAP-Reuter)—According to a telephone conversation with a reliable source in Hankow, the fire disaster involving six passenger ships at Hankow on Saturday resulted-in over 200 killed and 400…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—Fire yesterday destroyed five large wholesale shoe warehouses in Pha[?]lphia. It was one of the worst fires in…
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