Fire Throws 1000 Idle
LONDON: Coventry’s biggest fire since the wartime blitz. has thrown more than 1000 men out of work…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
430 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 22
Utility Engine Caught Fire
The engine of a utility truck caught fire last night at the Intersection of Led-[?] and Regent streets,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FINED £30 for Lighting Fire in Open. Police said 2500 Acres of Grassland and Four and a Half Miles of Fencing Destroyed. Defendant Claimed He Was Not Responsible for Outbreak
A sequel to the bush fire which threatened to spread to the residential portion of South Muswellbrook on 6th February last took place in the Court House on Wednesday, when a Shire Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rouchel Bush Fire Brigade Meeting
A meeting Of Rouchel Bush Fire Brigade was held in the School of Arts last week. The chair was occupied by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Committee’s Exhibit
The exhibit of the Bush Fire Committee at the Sydney show this year will attract special attention because or the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chemical Laboratory Wrecked By Fire
SYDNEY: A four-storey chemical laboratory was wrecked by dire and explosions at the corner of Kent and Margaret streets, city, to-day, causing damage estimated of £50,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chemical Fire in Sydney. Firemen Narrowly Escape Death. Sydney
A four-storey chemical laboratory was wrecked by fire and explosions at the corner of Kent and Margaret Streets, Sydney,…
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SYDNEY: Preparations were made to take off the crew and 900 British migrants aboard the liner Ranchi," when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fined £30 For Lighting Fire
MUSWELLBROOK : A sequel to a grass fire at South Muswellbrook. on February 15 took place at the…
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NEW YORK: A lorry driver, Barn[?], Barrett, 35, was sentenced to six months herd labour at Montgomery,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eight In Family Die In Fire
NEW YORK: An old wooden house at Somerset (Pennsylvania) became the funeral pyre of a disabled coal miner,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bushfire Exhibit at Royal Easter Show
The exhibit of the Bush Fire Committee at the Royal Easter Show this year will attract special attention because of the…
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The Mayor (Ald. J. Harvey) acknowledges contributions to the above fund as follow: Previously…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Enquiry Arrangements Actuate
Existing arrangements re-regarding enquiries into bush fires were considered adequate the Bush Fire Committee…
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CANBERRA: Malls for Australia from several. European, countries were destroyed when a K.L.M. plane burnt out near…
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CANBERRA.—Bishop E. H. Burgmann has criticised bushfire fighting methods as "all upside down."…
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A fire station may be built at Jerry’s Plains, the biggest village in the Patrick Plains Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Muswellbrook Chronicle TUESDAY, 8th APRIL, 1952. Puen Buen Homestead Lost. Destroyed by Fire
The well-known Puen Buen homestead, near Scone, was destroyed by fire at about 11.30 p.m. on Sunday…
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Late on Sunday night last, a fire broke out in the homestead at "Puen Buen" Stud, about four miles west of Scone. It was the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Playing With Fire
MISGUIDED UNIONISTS who refuse to obey their own industrial movement to hand over their dispute to the Trades and Labour Council, and then defy their Labour Premier and his Minister, could…
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