Bushfire Relief MELBOURNE
The bush fire relief funds now total £142,745…
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Fires & bushfires, 1926
571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 29
Steel-street Fire
A large quantity of chaff, being part of the stock of Steggles, Ltd., produce merchants, Steel-street, Newcastle, was found to be on fire at 9.26 o'clock last…
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Mr. G. Hall complained in a letter received by Merewether Council last night of the danger from fire owing to an immense growth of blackberries…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners informed Merewether Council. In a letter received last night, that the motor hose carriage for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Town Brigade Wallsend Fire-fighters "Not One Man Show"
An inquiry into the local fire brigade was requested of the Fire Board by Wallsend Council recently. Last night a letter was received from the…
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Most of the bushfires which broke out yesterday have been quietened by the strong southerly wind which sprang up late last night and…
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Bush fires throughout Victoria are for the most part under control. Several fresh calls for help were made yesterday in the Plenty Ranges,…
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Now that it seems fairly certain that the fire horrors in which the community has been engulfed for the month are past, of a season at any rate, an…
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The wives of the officers and firemen of the Newcastle permanent fire brigade staff gave a social evening last night to Mrs. Grimmond. who is…
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A house occupied by Mr. Thomas Muir, in Wither-street, West Wallsend, was burnt to the ground between 2 and 3 a.m. today…
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West Wallsend Fire Brigade was called to a fire in a dwelling occupied by Mr. T. Muir, in Withers-street, West Wallsend, at two o'clock on Saturday…
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Fire destroyed five business places at Tweed Heads early this morning. The damage is estimated at £30,000…
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All the district fire brigades were represented at the headquarters station of Saturday evening on the occasion of a social tendered to late Divisional Inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Destroyed by Fire Shakespeare Memorial LONDON
A fire practically destroyed the famous Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford on Avon to-day…
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A disastrous fire occurred at Tweed Heads this morning, when five business places were destroyed. The damage is estimated at £30,000, and as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Saw Baby Die Grim Story of the Bushfires Inquest on Victims Flames Still Travelling in Gippsland Hills MELBOURNE
The story of the burning of 20 people in the bush fires, which swept Powelltown, Gilderoy, and Big Pat's Creek, near Warburton, on Sunday, February 14, was re-told when the city coroner opened the inquests. The witnesses told how six persons, tay all night in the water in the…
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A statistician has gone to some trouble to show that our bush fire losses are not nearly so great as sometimes represented. Unfortunately, however, for…
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Bush fires are still threatening various parts of Victoria. A severe fire broke out in the Warburton district, and the township was threatened, but…
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Newcastle Headquarters Fire Brigade received a call yesterday morning to a fire among grass and scrub near the Newcastle Golf Club's links at North…
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Lupton House, Lord Churston's Devonshire mansion, was totally destroyed by fire. The fire broke out at midnight, and only the caretaker and…
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