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Hunter Valley · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1954

292 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 15

Scientific Records Lost In Fire

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

WELLINGTON: Scientific records of New Zealand’s research into North Island geothermal and volcanic activity…

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Dulles Will Not Return to Geneva Until Reds Show ‘Signs of Goodwill’ French Premier Has Nine Days To Negotiate Cease-fire

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 1

GENEVA: The United States Secretary of State (Mr. John Foster Dulles) has said he would not return to the Geneva conference until the Communists had shewn “signs of goodwill.” A French spokesman last night said Mr. Dulles sold this in a personal…

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Unusual Fire Causes

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 4

Bush fires may start in wholly unexpected ways and brigades must always be on the alert for the unusual. The Secretary of the Bush…

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Fire Destroyed Kearsley Home

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 1

A four-roomed, weather-board cottage was almost completely destroyed by fire at Kearsley on Friday night…

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Hotel Fire Caused £40,000 Damage

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 3

A fire at Tuncurry to-day burned to a shell the well-known Bellevue Hotel and caused damage estimated…

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Fire Weed ls Grave Menace

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 2

Port Stephens Shire Council decided yesterday to ask the Department of Agriculture once more to have fireweed…

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Princess fires cannon on jet fighter ALHORN (Germany)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 2

Princess Margaret fired a burst of 20mm cannon shells from a meteor jet…

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Forty Screaming Men and Women Flee From Blaze Wollongong, Friday

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 4

Forty men and women screaming in terror battered their way free from a blazing guest house…

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Fire Burns Down Big Guest House

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 1

WOLLONGONG: Forty men and women [?] is terror battered their way free from a blex[?] guest house at…

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Guests Flee in Panic Three Injured in Guest House Fire Wollongong

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 July 1954 · page 1

Forty men and women, screaming in terror, battered their way free from a blazing guest house at 2 a.m. to-day, smashing…

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King-street Store Damaged By Fire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE: Damage, estimated at £100,000 was caused when fire destroyed the premises of Doyle’s free stores…

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To-day’s leader Road Building America's Position As the Result of Peace Agreement U.S Was Not A Cease Fire Signatory

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON: The United States will not commit itself to defend any Indo-China truce line agreed on unilaterally by France and Communist China Defence Secretary, Charles Wilson, made this…

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Plane Engine on Fire

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 3

HONGKONG: A Cathay Pacific Airways plane, which is believed to have 18 persons on board, is reported to have…

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Organising of Games Under Fire

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 1

EMPIRE VILLAGE (Vancouver): Planning of the Empire Games timetable is drawing some criticism from team…

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To-day’s Leader Bogged Down Unexplained Delay In Vietnam Cease Fire

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 1

PARIS: An unexplained delay of an hour has occurred in the cease fire in northern Viltnamceded to the Communist Vietminh under the Genevapartition…

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Red Planes Fire On Searchers U.S. Carrier Planes Down Red Chinese Attackers

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 6

U.S. planes, engaged in the search for survivors of the downed British Skymaster, were yesterday…

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Woman Died ; After Clothes Caught Fire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 1

SIDNEY: A women burning like a “human couch” ran screaming among people at her home early to-day then…

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Korean gunman fires on Czech delegates SEOUL

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 1

A gunman fired on four Czechoslovakia!! members of the neutral nations supervisory commission as they entered their mess hall in Pusan on Saturday…

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Communists Fire on Press Plane

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 August 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: Communist border guards on Sunday fired on a plane carrying correspondents reporting the…

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Fire Outbreak on Airliner

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 1

CALCUTTA: Fire broke out on a Qantas Super-Constellation taxi-ing to the runway before taking off for London…

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