Bush Fire Damage 12,000 Tons Of Coal Burnt Labor Suspension
An application by R. B. Pettigrow, colliery engineer, of Sydney, for the suspension of labor conditions on seven lesses at Mt. Vincent, five miles…
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Fires & bushfires, 1924
415 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 21
'Bus on Fire Complete Destruction Cessnock Blaze
A motor 'bus, known as Merewether No. 1. owned by Messrs. Ramsay and Baxter, and plying between Kurri and Cessnock, was totally destroyed by…
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At about 4.30 p.m. on Saturday the Cessnock fire brigade received a call to a are in Main-street, Cessnock. A weatherboard cottage of six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shed on Fire Blaze at Maitland Good Save
This morning at 8.30 the West Maitland fire brigade had a call to the biggest fire that has taken place in West Maitland for 12 months. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Craven Plate Gloaming Under Fire Test of Speed Sydney
When Gloaming arrived from New Zealand nearly three months ago, Mr. Greenwood stated that the race which had been specially marked off for him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Horseshoe Bend Fire
A shed, 50 feet by 24 feet, at the rear of the residence of Mr. Peter Recanzone, in Plaistowe-street, Horseshoe Bend. West Maitland, was destroyed by fire on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Why the Delay? Hamilton Fire Station
Alderman Jenner, at Hamilton Council meeting last night, asked the Mayor if he could give any information about the proposed new central…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Street Collision Lorry Catches Fire Driver Injured Sydney
Owing to a collision in George-street West early this morning, a motor lorry toot are. The driver, Christopher Owie, was hurt, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blaze in Adelaide Adelaide
Damage to the extent of £12,000 was caused by a fire at Campbell and Worthington's garage, in which 20 motor cars were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Popular Science Fires at Oil Works
Au important new invention of great value in putting out fires at oil works is now in use at Los Angeles. Large tanks containing oil enough to fill 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Cessnock Blaze Fish Saloon Gutted
Cessnock was the scene of another serious fire last night, when a weatherboard shop and dwelling in Vincent-street, owned by Mr. Geo…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock. Fire in Vincent-street
An outbreak of fire occurred in a block of closely-built weatherboard shops at the railway end of Vincent-street, Cessnock at 7.40 o'clock last night, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bitumen and Heat New Irish Discovery Fire Resisted
For many Industrial purposes bitumen has only found restricted application because it is very inflammable, and also is liable to soften under certain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Wyong Wyong
A resident, occupied by Mr. R. Solomons, and owned by Mr. E. Solomons, at Wyong Creek, consisting of eight rooms and a kitchen, was totally destroyed by…
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Two new fire alarms are to be placed in the Adamstown municipality, one at the corner of Teralba and Melville roads, and the other at the corner of Moira…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fires in Sydney Sydney
A big fire occurred at Botany to-night, when a wool store attached to Swinbourne and Stevens' woolscouring works was destroyed. The building was 100 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Carrington Shortage of Water
A fire broke out in two semi-detached two-storied houses, tenanted by Messrs. James Adams and A. Thompson, in Little Fitzroy-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal London Fire
Two lives were lost—those of a member of the London Fire Brigade and a member of the Salvage Corps—in a fire at the works of Japanel Enamel…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Earthquake and Fire Capetown
An earth tremor, probably the most severe over experienced on the Rand, is reported from Johannesburg. It caused many falls of rock in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Zara-street Third Mysterious Outbreak
A fine occurred in mysterious circumstrances at an empty house, No. 14 Zara-street, Newcastle, last night. About 8.30 o'clock a man called in at…
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