Fire Exploded, Injured Hotel Cook
Eleanor Burn, 20, of Aberdare-street, Kurri, a cook at the Exchange Hotel, Maitland, received to the face, left wrist and…
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Fires & bushfires, 1949
309 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 16
Fire In Kitchen
SINGLETON, Wed.—A fire which caused only slight damage broke out in the sponge kitchen premises of Aust Bros in George-street,…
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A fire which broke out in Aust Bros. premises, Campbell Street, Singleton, during the lunch hour yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Sat.—Six youths made desperate efforts to save a 16-feet fishing launch near Kurnell early to-day when the craft…
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LONDON, Oct. 10.—France has appealed to Marshall Aid nations to buy timber charred by the forest fires which swept the…
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WITH the summer months approaching, the menace of bush fires, with their threats to bush lands, bush life, standing…
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SINGLETON, Tuesday.—Singleton volunteer fire brigade members had their half-yearly inspection last night, when Inspector Brown…
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Cause of a fire which caused £100,000 damage when it swept through R.A.A.F. No, 2 stores in Sydney early this morning…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Damage estimated at £50,000 was caused when fire destroyed the RAAF No. 2 stores at Regent’s Park early this morning. Heavy explosions rocked the building and shook houses…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Sabotage is not suspected in the five which caused damage estimated at £100,000 in a RAAF medical…
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Forestry officers in the area between Dungog and Kempsey are using in their bushfire control measures an ingenious device automatically registering fire risks—the only instrument of its kind in the world used regularly for…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. —An inquest into the deaths of three persons incinerated in a house at Barwon Heads early yesterday was…
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Greek guerilla army has ceased operations "in order to avoid total destruction of Greece."…
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HONGKONG, Oct. 17. — Fighting is raging in the north-east earner of Amoy, besieged South Fukien island city, opposite the Nationalist stronghold of Formosa, following a seaborne invasion by Communist troops…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Valuable machinery was ruined when a spectacular fire spread through Proud Bros. Pty. Ltd. moulders’…
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The Bishop of Birmingham. Dr. E. W. Barnes, said that the use of atomic bombs in another war might set up a chain…
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CESSNOCK, Friday.—An appeal is being made by his neigh bourse to raise funds tor Jack Wilton, whose two-roomed home…
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Awakened by the cries of his 12 months Wednesday afternoon, Jack Whitton, of Long-street, East Cessnock, found the room in which he had been fiercely and the house filled with smoke…
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PARIS: One-quarter of France’s resin industry was lost in the great forest fire disaster which has gazed 375,000 acres of cultivated maritime pine woods in recent weeks. Three-quarters of the forest’s four million cubic metres of…
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CESSNOCK, Monday. — One room and its contents were severely damaged in a fire at a weatherboard cotage at…
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