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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
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There were several matters of interest to local district landholders discussed at the last meeting of the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust held recently in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Chief Secretary (Mr. C. Evatt) has reimposed the prohibition on the lighting of fires in the open air for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nominations for the election of members of the board of fire Commissioners will close on March 3, said the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW YORK—Eight children died in a fire which destroyed their home nine miles north of Coos Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A bush fire which swept through rough gra[?]s country of Vere, near Broke, in the Singleton district, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chief Secretary's reimposed ban on the lighting of fires in the open applies only to fires for cooking…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The [?] Secretary (Mr. C. Byatt) announced today that he had prohibited the lighting of [?] in the open air for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Fire Brigade was called out yesterday afternoon to deal with a small area of grass slight in Mount View…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Chief Secretary, Mr C. Evatt, has reimposed the prohibition on the lighting of fires in the open air for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire which threatened buildings off Keene Street, Cessnock, yesterday, went within five feet of the Butter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A small quality of coal was burnt in a fire which broke out in a coal truck of a train travelling to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A grass fire broke out in the area between King and Birallee Streets yesterday. Two hundred yards of fencing were burned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, announced on Wednesday that he had prohibited the lighting of fires in the open-air for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two men yesterday refused to fight a bushfire which burnt out nearly 8,000 acres of valuable grass lands in the Vere area. The fire started on the A.F.V. range and threatened to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A prohibition on the lighting of fires in the open for camping purposes was announced on Thursday by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Evatt)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Keep doors and windows closed when bushfires are near your house," said a C.S.I.R.O. spokesman recently. This simple advice is based on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Awakened at 1.55 a.m. yesterday by a loud crackling, John McLaren and his family, of Lake Road, Wallsend,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two men and lour children suffered burns and shock in a fire on a launch at Lake Macquaric Ferries Wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SINGLETON : A bushfire at [?] near Broke, Yesterday destroyed 1000 score of [?] and scrubland any many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A grass fire, believed to have been started by internal combustion in a heap of manure, started a fire at the…
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