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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
430 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 22
Despite the destruction of the studios, offices and equipment by fire in the early hours of last Saturday morning, Radio Station 2CK (Cessnock) did not miss a broadcast and was back on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr W. Mason, who has a footwear business at The Entrance met with an unfortunate mishap on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Front line officers report that U.S. infantry withstood a heavy Chinese Communist assault on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK: Forty firemen were injured and a watchman was [?] and feared dead yesterday in one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK: A large section of No. 1 tunnel of Bellbird colliery Had to be sealed off yesterday because of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The hon. treasurer (Mr. A. J. Spratt), of the Merriwa Fire Relief Fund, formed for the purpose of assisting the victims of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Employees of Maitland Abattoir kept under control a fire which started in a quantity of split furnace wood in a yard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four runners which look like being well fancied by the public for the Yennora Handicap at the Warwick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sunday afternoon motorists crossing the Long Bridge near the Maitland Hospital yesterday afternoon crawled at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Chairman of the Bush Fire Committee, Mr. M. Messer, has written to the Shire President, Cr. A. C. Marshall, expressing his personal appreciation of the Council's plan to build a fire brigade building at Jerry's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKYO: The first battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment recently arrived in Korea, had Its baptism of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BROKEN HILL: Fire to-day swept through Broken Hill Railway Station, causing damage estimated at £80.000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LOS ANGELES—Antonio Negrete woke up to find his mattress smouldering. He and his wife put it out and went…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SAN FRANCISCO: Damage estimated at five million dollars (£2,000,000) was caused when flames engulfed two ocean-going, tankers and a pier at Oleum docks, in San Francisco Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY: Many thousands of pounds damage was caused to the Portland cement works bag store by fire early to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four persons are believed dead and several are reported missing in a hotel fire here which may reach the proportions of a major…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"A cigarette is the perfect type of pleasure. It is exquisite and leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want" Thus spoke Oscar Wilde—and most smokers would agree with him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY: Total damage of £40,000 is estimated to have been caused to Cyclone grinding works, Chippendale, by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY Police to-day maintained a cordon around two buildings which were gutted by fire at the Circular Quary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. R. A. Jonas, organiser of the heifer appeal for bush fire victims on the South Coast, has received letters of thanks from…
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