Wall of Fire Sweeping the Bush In Blue Mountains KATOOMBA
Bush fires are blazing on every hill, and in every dale of the Blue Mountains from Glenbrook to Bell. The bush is ablaze, and volunteer firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1919
155 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 8
New Industry Fire Brick Enterprise
The erection of works for the Newbold Silica. Fire Brick Co., Ltd., has been started on portion of four acres of land acquired by the company at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bush Fires Menace on the Mountains SYDNEY
The bush fires which have been circling Blackheath for the past night are steadily drawing nearer residential arena. Several places have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greek Fire's End Jockey Suspended SYDNEY
The stipendiary stewards to-day concluded their inquiry into the circumstances of the accident which brought about the death of Greek Fire. They…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Sydney Letter. "Pneumonic Influenza."—still the Reassuring Attitude.—the Wisdom in Alarming.—inoculation and the Mask.—quarantine and Publicity.—either Compulsion in Everything, or the "Fire-bell." Sydney
The only interest to-day is in this so-called " Pneumonia Influenza." We are still indulging our racial weakness—an optimism which in other matters would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merewether Fire Brigade's Prompt Work
Smart work was performed by the Merewether Fire Brigade under Captain Day at 4.30 this morning at a fire in Morgan-street, Merewether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand Fire Wellington (N.z.)
By croft's flour mill and biscuit factory at Auckland has been destroyed by fire. Many thousands of pounds' damage resulted. The property was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Eve of Fresh Blaze" Fears in Berlin Spartacus Activities LONDON, Sunday Night
A correspondent at Copenhagen states that it is widely roared in well-informed circles that Berlin is on the eve of a fresh blaze of Bolshevism,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boys Cause Fires Fire Officer's Statement
In the six weeks since the beginning of the year the Newcastle district firemen hare had 67 calls to fires. "Nine-tenths of them" declared…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Wheat 75,000 Bags Destroyed TEMORA
As the result of a fire in a wheat stack at Mirrol siding, on the T[?]mora to Bare[?]gn railway line, yesterday afternoon, 75,000 bags of 1916-17…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Lambton House Destroyed
This afternoon a five-roomed house and furniture in Nerong-road, Lambton, was destroyed by fire. The tenant, Mrs. W. Stewart, was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Greater Newcastle and Fire Brigades
Evidence in rebuttal of any proposal to take over fire brigade utilities by the Greater Newcastle body will be given before the Royal Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Lambton. Destructive Fire
A five-roomed weatherboard cottage, situated in Nerong-road, owned by Mrs. H. A. Watson, and occupied by Mr. William Steward, was destroyed by fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Saturday's Fires Hamilton False Alarm
The are brigades of the district were busy on Saturday. During the afternoon Hamilton and Broadmeadow brights, under Officer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Brigades Oppose Absorption Commission Evidence
The president of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. Farrar) said that strong exception was taken to Creator Newcastle taking over the fire service,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early Fire Fighter Stratten of Stockton
"People say you are too modest, Tom. You do too much and say too little. Stand up and stick your chest out."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Fire Fiend
We have heard much talk both inside and outside Parliament concerning the folly of destroying the forests without making provision for replacing the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire Brigades Meet
A six-a-side match was played on Saturday between Newcastle and Adamstown are brigades, on the Newcastle station Wicket. Newcastle won by an innings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Gossip. Fire and Water. Melbourne, March 12
The transition from fire to flood was startlingly sudden. It turned out that the heavy rain in the latter half of February was only the precursor of a still…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Fire on the J. A. Cox. Melbourne
A wireless message regarding the fire on the steamer J. A. Cox states that the are, which was caused by spontaneous combustion amongst phosphates, is under…
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