Melbourne Gossip. Melbourne, August 3. a Handy Fire
For many months back Sir George Knibbs and his Bureau of Science and Manufactures have been protesting against the continued presence on their…
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Fires & bushfires, 1925
435 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 22
Just for Spite Sugarcane Fields Fire SYDNEY
That jealousy was the motive leading to fires in the sugarcane Holds in the Broadwater district on the North Coast was the belief advanced by…
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Station Officer J. Moule, who last week took up his duties as officer-in-charge of the Cessnock Fire Brigade, was welcomed to Cessnock at a combined function…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News Carrington. Fire Brigade
A function was held at the fire station, Carrington, on Saturday night in connection with the installation of the new motor engine. Captain Ball presided. Mr. T. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Long Felt Want Carrington's Fire Engine
The president of the Board of Fire Commissioners (Mr. Benwick) officially Installed the new motor fire engine at the Carrington fire elation on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Open Verdict Fire on Board Coombar SYDNEY
After hearing further evidence to-day concerning the fire on the steamer Coombar, on July 21, the Coroner returned a verdict that the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in a Camp Outbreak at Kearsley
A fire occurred in a camp owned and occupied by Mr. Muirhead, at Kearsley, on Saturday night, but was extinguished before the arrival of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigades' Award Sydney
Judge Rolin, in the Arbitration Court to-day, by consent, renewed the award of the Fire Brigades' Board employees, with increased pay all round…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newtown Fire Blaze at Oil Works
At 11.30 this morning Hamilton fire brigade received a telephone call to a fire at the Brooklyn Oil works at Newtown, Hamilton, where oil distilling is…
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About 11.40 o'clock yesterday morning, Hamilton Fire Brigade was called to an outbreak at the premises of the Brooklyn Oil Distillery, at Newtown, Hamilton…
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A complaint was sent to the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce by a business house that the Railway Department had refused to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dead Hero Medal for Craythorne Canberra Fire Sydney
The greatest honor that Australia can bestow on one individual for acts of bravery has been granted posthumously to Reginald Craythorne, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire Boundaries Teralba Proposal
Recently Lake Macquarie Shire Council informed Toralba Progress Association that it could not supply an estimate of the revenue derivable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Open Verdict. Fire at Hebburn
On August 28, 1924, a two-roomed "bach" at Hebburn was burnt, down during the absence of the owner, George William Storey. Pesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fires in Sydney Exciting Scenes Sydney
Great excitement prevailed in a house in Forbes-street, Wooloomooloo, to-night, when two rooms on the top floor of the house, which is of two storeys, caught…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Basrah
A message from Bagdad states that Basrah City has lost whole streets of humble houses through a fire, which burned throughout Tuesday night and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£75,000 FIRE Big Flour Mills Destroyed MELBOURNE
The Burnley flour mills at Donald, 182 miles from Melbourne on the Mildura line were destroyed in a spectacular £76,000 blaze last night. When…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Sydney Sydney
Thousands of pounds worth of dam age was caused by a fire which broke out, and completely destroyed a furniture factory occupied by James Kwong…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brattice in Flames Echo of Mine Fire Ayrfield Outbreak Coal Commission Evidence
"My mate asked me to take one skip out of tho board, as he was tired. I consented, I came to a brattice door, which I went through, and while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Fire Engine Tighe's Hill Equipment
The Board of Fire Commissioners has decided to equip the Tighe's Hill station with a motor engine. The only equipment there now is a hand…
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