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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
321 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 17
Patrick Plains Shire Council yesterday decided to protest strongly to the Bush Fire Committee on the centralisation of bush" fire control in Sydney. Council will urge that aim of the Bush Fires Act…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SINGLETON, Saturday. —Patrick Fides Shire Council is to object to toe centralisation of control by the Bush Fire Advisory Committee, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS. April 29.—Hard labour for life was the sentence imposed at Mont dc Marsan (Southwest France) yesterday on a man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TEL AVIV, May 3.—An Isr[?] tighter yesterday fired war[?] shots lo force a United Nations plane to land at Lydda airport…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sat—Damage running into thousands of pounds was caused by a spectacular blaze which today transformed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Brigade Station-officer A. McLean and his wife were farewelled at a gathering at the fire Station on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OTTAWA, Today- At least eight persons have lost their lives in a fire which was raging unchecked late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →QUEBEC, May 8.—At least eight persons tost their lives in o fire which was raging unchecked fate yesterday in the industrial city of Rimouski (population 11,000). A huge biaze, whipped by a gale, had destroyed 300…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police have so far been unable to trace the cause of an explosion which preceded a fire which severely damaged a car owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RIMOUSKI (Quebec), May 9.—Stunned and weary residents of this fire-ravaged city counted their losses yesterday as the devastated areas smouldered under a tight blanket of snow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A young Bait migrant was severely burned about the face and hands when she rescued one of her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although Americans hang their heads in shame whenever the national fire loss is brought up-in 1949 it was 700,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A fire lighted in 1790 still burns in the fireplace of the Morris family at Saluda, North Carolina. It has burned continuously…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HULL Quebec, May 20.—Four nuns arc believed to burned to death on Thursday night When fire destroyed part of the Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A report on the Housing Commission homes at Cessnock provided material for a lively discussion at the meeting of the local branch of the A.L.P. on Sunday. Members expressed disapproval of the high rentals-£2/4/…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, May 29 (AAP)—A Are at the Brompton Chest Hospital in the London suburb of Futhem, trapped a doctor and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In our dally life It is remarkable how much we depend on fire possibly more so now than at any time In the history of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An absorbing story of the underground fire dangers at Greta mines was told recently in an A.B.C. broadcast by Professor T G. Hunter. The speaker described how spontaneous combustion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ST. JOHN’S (Newfoundland), June 6.—The Government yesterday ordered immediate preparations for mass sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two women, two children and a man were burned to death last night when flames swept through two carriages of the Birmingham-Glasgow…
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