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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1921

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Ship on Fire Blaze on the Junee Engines and Cabins Ruined

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 1

Newcastle are brigades has an inaud[?]ions start for the new year, with a cell at four of clock this morning to be [?] Junee, lying at [?]…

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Newcastle Fire Brigade

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 2

The district fire brigade report for 1920 shows that 89 dalla were received is against [?] in the previous year. The most serious outbreak was at the…

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Sydney Fire Statistics. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 7

The fires dealt with by the 34 permanent and 29 voluntary brigades in Sydney during 1920 numbered 376 less than in 1919, the total last year being 1344…

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Maitland District. the Fire Brigade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 8

The annual report covering the operations of the fire brigades in B district of B division of New South Wales Fire Brigades shows that during the year there…

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Newcastle Fire Brigades Records for 1920

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1921 · page 7

The year 1920 was much less strenuous for the Newcastle district fire brigades than the previous year. The total number of calls received at all…

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Outbreaks of Fire. Steamer Junee Damaged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 January 1921 · page 5

The Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer Junee was damaged by an outbreak of fire during the early hours of Saturday. The steamer arrived at…

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Fire in Sydney. at Warkon Building. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 5

A disastrous fire occurred to-night in Warkon Building, 51-53 Elizabeth-street. The fourth floor occupied by the Church Missionary Society, and the third floor,…

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The Great Fire of London. Passing of the Mediaeval City

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 7

It seems rather strange that London should have had to wait 250 years for a history of the most vivid of its experiences, the Great Fire of 1666; but the…

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City Fire Loss Under £10,000 Damage by Water SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 5

The damage caused by the fire in Walkon Buildings, Elizabeth-street, Sydney, is not so extensive as it might have been. No complete estimate of…

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Fire Ruin of Warkon Buildings

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 1

Photographed from an upper window of "The Sun" office which, thanks to weather conditions and the strenuous efforts of the Fire Brigade was itself saved from the destruction which gravely manaced it. Near the centre of the picture is seen the frameworks of Warkon building's lift well, down which the flame travelled from floor to floor…

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£10,000 FIRE Timber Yard in Flames Fusing of Wires Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1921 · page 5

Early this morning there was an outbreak of are at the yards of the Australian Timber Co.. Ltd.. at Haborfield. The damage is unofficially…

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Fire in Timber Yard. £10,000 Damage Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 5

Damage estimated at £10,000 was done by a fire which occurred at the premises of the Australian Timber Company, at the corner of Parramatta and St. David's…

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Inquest on Fire Victim

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 January 1921 · page 5

The inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Walter Fair, who lost her life as a result of burns received in the disastrous fire at her home at South…

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Disastrous Fire 12,000 Damage Hobart

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 5

The most disastrous fire in the history of Uiverstone occurred on Sunday night, it broke out at the rear of a store kept by Duo Lee, a…

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Labor Split A.L.P. CONDEMNED "Fire-eating Dictators" SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 5

Last night tho United Laborers' Union condemned the Labor Council and the delegates were instructed to protest against what was termed its…

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Fire Board Vacancy Newcastle Man Wanted

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1921 · page 6

Aldermen H. J. McDicken (Drum" moyne) and W. Cracknell (West Maitland) are candidates for the position on the Board of Fire Commisioners…

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Fire Board Vacancy. Rival District Candidates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 January 1921 · page 5

The candidatures of three aldermen in the Newcastle and Maitland districts who propose to contest the vacancy created on the Fire Board by the death…

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Ice and Fire Freezing Works Destroyed £100,000 Damage Auckland (N.z.)

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 January 1921 · page 1

A fire, caused £100,000 damage at Whangarel Freezing Works. The buildings were destroyed. They were mostly made of wood, and included a…

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Fire Engine Capsized Two Men Killed Collision in Narrow Street Auckland (N.z.)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 January 1921 · page 1

While [?]asking to a fire at a speech of 40 miles an hour, a Hamilton fire engine care[?] and two firemen, Horbert Graham and George Price, were…

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Fire at Sons of Gwalia Mine Kalgoorlie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 5

Last evening a fire broke out in the surface plant at the Sons of Gwallia mine, near Leonora, doing considerable damage in the engine-room to the…

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