Scrub Fire
CESSNOCK, Monday.—A fire in Aberdare-road, Aberdare, this morning burnt out a large area of scrub and grass. Cessnock fire brigade…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
384 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 20
16 Killed in Mexico Fire
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 29. — At least 16 were killed when a hardware store in the heart of the business section was gutted…
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Singleton Fire Brigade received a call to a fire early on Saturday afternoon. Locale was railway property adjoining the…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade had no sooner returned to the Station from a fire at Aberdare Extended Colliery yesterday than it ,was called to another in Aberdare-road…
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TEL AVIV, Nov. 30.—imprisoned members of the outlawed Stern Gang yesterday set fire to their military detention camp near Tel Aviv in an effort to oppose their transfer to Acre prison. They surrendered only after the building, in which they were detained, was burning furiously…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Damage estimated at £5000 was caused to a shed at the rear of a Parramatta garage to-day, which…
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SINGLETON, Wed. — At the half-yearly meeting of the Cooperative Society the auditor (Mr. W. A. Low) stated the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Fire Brigade Association members must resist any move to decrease staff, said the secretary of the…
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 1.—In addition to a cense fire agreement, the Arabs and Jews have signed an accord regularising food convoys and…
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Despite a loss totalling £11.789 as the result of the disastrous fire in August last, the Singleton and District Cooperative Society has been able to declare a four per cent, dividend on shareholders' capital and 1/3 bonus on…
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A small fire brake out shortly before 2 p.m. to-day among some rubbish and grass on the bank of the river behind Hustler’s. Pty. Ltd. No…
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GRAFTON, Monday.—Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which completely gutted the grandstand at Grafton Show…
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When a trailer bus caught fire In the parking yard at Rover Motors Ltd. early yesterday morning It was completely destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An elderly widow and her son escaped from a fire at their home at Longueville early this morning with…
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PARIS, Dec. 8. —United Nations officials and typists, with papers hastily grabbed from desks, made their way through, smoke-filled…
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United Nations officials and typists with papers hastily grabbed from desks made their way through smoke-filled corridors…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Damage estimated at more than £500,000 was done when a fire yesterday afternoon destroyed the canister factory of Richard Hughes Pty. Ltd. in Queen’s Road, Five Dock…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to the corner of Allandale-road and McGrane-Btreet, Cessnock, yesterday morning…
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At the council meeting on Wednesday, Aid. E. H. Thompson alleged that two grass fires recently at Bengalla and Muscle Creek had been…
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Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which completely gutted the grandstand at Grafton Show Ground on Sunday night…
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