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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
309 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 16
There was a fire call somewhere in Australia every hour last year.Through fires, 20 people were killed, and 198 people were seriously injured. It is impossible to assess the extent of damage to property…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CESSNOCK —The funeral of the late sub-station Officer Alfred Edward McGrath took place at Weston on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Volunteer Firebrigade Captain, Mr. A. L. McKendry, yesterday accompanied Fire Department officers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LITHGOW, Wed.—A spectacular fire yesterday afternoon destroyed a big cooling tower at Lithgow power station, damage being estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Harsh action against individuals by the Immigration Department was bringing the whole of Australia’s migration policy into disrepute, the Rev, Alan Walker said last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Fire Brigade received a call from Brunswick-st., East Maitland, this afternoon to extinguish a small grass fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May 9.—The Countess of Cowley. 70, widow of the third Earl, died in a fire a her home, Seagay House, St Chippenham, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, May 13.—A message from the Swedish tanker Atlanta intercepted yesterday by the US coastguard, said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Detectives investigating a fire which gutted a house in Lakemba on Saturday night, believe that thieves were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One of, the greatest fires that took place in modern times was that,was that which broke out in San Francisco after the earth- quake of 1906, although in California he earthquake Is never mentioned "and the catastrophe is listed as a fire. But fire and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More than a million tons of high-grade gas coal will be lost as a result of the fire Which broke out in a section of Aberdare Extended…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A house owned by Mrs. V Bell and resided in by Dr. c. Earls Davis, den-tal surgeon, in Dowling Street, was gutted by fire early on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thurs.—Under legislation now ready for Parliament, insurance companies will have to pay 75 per cent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thurs.—Officers of the Chief secretary’s Department would examine racing stables to ensure that they had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW YORK, May 19.—Chinese Communists tightened throttling grip on Shanghai yesterday as they closed in from the east with surprising speed, and moved almost to the Whangpoo River, north from Shanghai…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early on Tuesday night, Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to a fire which started in the front seat of a taxi parked in Allandale Road…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday. — Detectives are investigating a mysterious lire which broke out in a display window of s Lane Cove…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Senior Police officers warned today that the lighting of bon fires tonight to celebrate Empire Day may bring penalties…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HONGKONG, May 24 (A.A.P.-Reuter). — Eight large fires were burning fiercely on Pootung last night, barely half a mile from the edge of the eastern bank of the Whangpoo Rivers as the battle on the peninsula, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BERLIN, May 24.—Two strikers were killed in renewed fighting in Berlin last night when Communist railway police fired into a mob which had tried to storm, the Zoo station in the British sector of the city…
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