Elderly Woman Dies In Fire
Mrs. Patricia Petrie Jenkins, 75. of Metcalfe Street. Speers Point, was incinerated when her shack caught fire…
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Fires & bushfires, 1952
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£15,000 Dozer Destroyed by Fire. Valuable Mining Unit Lost
A Tourneau dozer, valued at £15,000, was practically destroyed by fire at the Muswellbrook open cut mine…
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Prompt action by Mr. Bill Thompson and a neighbour, Mrs. A. Pearse, saved Mr. Thompson's home from being…
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Cessnock Fire Brigade was called to two fires at the week-end. On Saturday night a high…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Destroys Main Street Properties Two-storied Building and a Shop Gutted at Merriwa. Brigade Fights Fire In Howling Gale
The biggest town fire Merriwa has experienced for a decade occurred on Sunday night in the main Street, when Mr. C. Vero's radio and electrical store and the two-storied stone building adjoining on the coiner of Vennacher and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deaf and Dumb. Couple Warned by Firemen. Fire Outbreak in Adjoining Premises. Sydney
Firemen early to-day broke into a house to warn a deaf and dumb couple of a fire raging in an adjoining chemical factory…
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A small fire occurred in a cottage divided into two flats at 17 Regent-street, about 10 o’clock last night…
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Two rooms of a weatherboard cottage in McGrane Street, Cessnock, were severely damaged by fire on…
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ARMIDALE: A woman admitted having set fire to Mountain View guest-house, Bnrragorang Valley, last…
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The Hunter District water Board will be asked by Cessnock or Council to repair replace or paint fire [?] indicators…
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Port Stephens Shire Council has been advised by the Board of Fire Commissioners that the amount of £120…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Factory Under Fire At Clarence Town Directors And Manager Toe The Mat
At a meeting of the Clarence Town Branch of the M.Z.D.C. last night, at which the chairman of Directors of the Dungog Butter Factory, Mr. J. Marquet, and the manager, Mr. W. Searl…
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Contents of a front bedroom in a residential over the Cessnock Ex-servicemen's Club in Vincent Street, Cessnock, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Muswellbrook Chronicle TUESDAY, 17th JUNE, 1952. Denman District News. Notes from Shire Council Meeting. Bushfire Brigade
Mr. P. C. Bush, hon. secretary, Penman and District Bushfire Fighting Committee, was thanked for a comprehensive report…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Leader Virile Spirit Needed Moscow Claims Swedish Plane Opened Fire On Soviet Fighters
STOCKHOLM: Russia claims that the Swedish Air Force Catalina shot down by Soviet jet fighters in the Baltic Sea on Monday had first opened fire on Soviet planes…
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The Singleton Fire Brigade has been praised for the work it did in coping with a fire that broke out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Destroys Radio Station Buildings
About 10,000 records were lost in a £7000 fire which destroyed the offices and studio of Cessnock radio…
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After gathering information from all Bushfire Brigade captains, the Shire Clerk, Mr. H. Troman,…
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Despite the destruction of the studios, offices and equipment by fire in the early hours of last Saturday morning, Radio…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Victims' Relief Fund Formed at Public Meeting
At a well-attended public meeting, called by the Shire President, at the request of the residents of Merriwa, it…
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