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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1916

192 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 10

Italian Campaign. Gun Fire Near the Sea

Northern Times · Thursday 7 December 1916 · page 5

ROME, Wednesday.—An official communique states: "The enemy attempted to approach Scatalori, but was driven off…

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The West Front. Successful Raids. Heavy Artillery Fire. (Australian Cable Association). LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 December 1916 · page 5

General Sir Douglas Haig, the British Commander on the west front, reports:— We successfully raided trenches south-eastward of Neuville St. Vaast…

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£600,000 Fire

Northern Times · Tuesday 12 December 1916 · page 5

VANCOUVER, Monday.—Five deaths, injuries to 50 persona, and damage estimated at £600.000 wore caused this morning by a fire at the…

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Canada's Great Fire

Northern Times · Wednesday 13 December 1916 · page 5

OTTAWA, Tuesday.—The Quaker Oats works destroyed by fire, were at Peterborough, Ontario, Four lives were lost, 12 persons are missing, and…

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Sale of Fire-Arms

Northern Times · Wednesday 13 December 1916 · page 5

Advice was received from the Defence Department this morning that the embargo on the sale of fire-arms and ammunition had been removed…

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Homeville Fire Station. Plans Arrived

Northern Times · Wednesday 13 December 1916 · page 4

Plans for the erection of a fire station at Homeville to serve Homesville, Telerah, Rutherford and Mayfield, have at last arrived in West…

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Fire Brigade Force. (To the Editor.)

Northern Times · Wednesday 13 December 1916 · page 8

Sir,—The clanging of the alarm bell at the Tighe's Hill fire station on Saturday last was the reason for the temporary suspension of traffic and…

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Fire Commissioner's Tour

Northern Times · Thursday 14 December 1916 · page 3

Mr. Sheppard, a member of the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners, and Mr. H. M. Webb (secretary of the board) visited the fire…

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Fire Hose Cut

Northern Times · Tuesday 19 December 1916 · page 5

SYDNEY.—Several bags of wheat and a number of lines of fire hose were slashed and cut about at Darling Harbour yesterday. Though the…

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Fires in Sydney

Northern Times · Wednesday 20 December 1916 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Charles Golasky was badly affected by smoke and heat when entering his shop, which was on fire at about two o'clock…

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Fire at West Maitland

Northern Times · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 1

Late yesterday afternoon the people of West Maitland were startled by the tones of the fire-bell, and a large crowd of people in sulkies, on bicycles…

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Fire at Horseshoe Bend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 December 1916 · page 6

At 5.10 p.m. yesterday the fire bell clanged at the West Maitland fire station, and the motor engine, manned by a number of firemen, under…

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