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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires
336 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 17
A strange audience, which huddled Indian fashion around a smokey spark-spitting fire at Maitland Park on Saturday night, had to imagine scenes ranging from the balcony in “Romeo and Juliet” to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Shire Council wishes to bring to the notice of all district residents the requirements of the law relating to the lighting of fires during the bush fire danger period, which has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Board of Pire Commissioners, writing to Port Stephen Shire. Council, with reference to the Question of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EDINBURGH: Four young children, trapped in a bedroom of their biasing home near Stirling early yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire in bush and scrub on vacant land in Colliery-street, Aberdare, was extinguished by Cessnock Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnoek Fire Brigade attended two fires on Saturday. The first, early in the morning, was in the shop of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It was hung In the tower at the old Are station opposite the Commonwealth Bank, but when the new flre station was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →He was being assisted Ind the experiment by the district agronomist (Mr. F. D. Mackenzie)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The N.S.W. Bush Fire Committee was paying too much attention to its Bush Fire Prevention campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The summer bushfire prevention campaign will open officially on Monday November 2…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEW YORK: Soviet Russia was again under fire In the United Nations yesterday, as Britain, Australia and New Zealand vigorously denounced communist [?] charges against the United States. Peaking in the Political Committee’s resumed debate on the American…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The annual bush fire prevention campaign will be opened on Monday next, 2nd November. "Bush Fire Prevention" is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Fire Brigade was called yesterday to deal with a fire in an old Council rubbish dump off Lindsay St…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Wednesday night last the administrative officer of the Board of Fire Commissioners of N.S.W. (Mr. Wiggins), together…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The grasshopper plague in the north-west is on the move, but farmers and graziers fighting the waves cannot expect any help from the Army before this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON: Stink bombs may be used to combat fire hazards In British mines, according to the annual report on mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The grasshopper plague in the north-west is on the move, but farmers and graziers fighting the waves cannot expect any help from the Army before this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hunter District Water Board was running roughshod over everybody In [?] collection of rates, Cr. G. Humphries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The R.A.A.F. will provide air reconnaissance and patrol aircraft this summer for bushfire spotting in Victoria, New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Fire and Accident Underwriters' Association advised the Municipal Council on Wednesday, in reply to the council's request…
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