Fire on a Steamer
The Pool Shipping Company's steamer Otterpool (4867 tons), from Britain, carrying 6000 tons of coal for Adelaide, berthed at the Outer Harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1927
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 25
Mill Destroyed Fire at Wyong WYONG
McDonald and Company's sawmill, felloe and axe-handle works, at Wyong, were destroyed by fire last night. The buildings contained valuable…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire on a Coal Steamer Adelaide
The British cargo steamen Otterpool, with 6500 tons of coal for the municipal tramways trust, arrival at the outer harbour this morning with fires fiercely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prevention of Fires
Stockton Council decided last night to clear a scrubby lane in which a serious fire started last summer, and to serve a notice on the owner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Full Swing Election Fight in Sydney Leaders Open Fire Sydney
The State election campaign is in full swing. Mr. Lang had a good reception last night at Rockdale, where he told the people that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spring Garden Flower Show at Winn's Blaze of Color
The large exhibition hall at W. Winn and Company has been turned into a spring garden by the Newcastle and District Floricultural Society,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Leichhardt Sydney
At a late hour to-night a fire completely destroyed the furniture factory of C. Dickenson, in May-street, Leichhardt. The damage is estimated at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jenner Opens Fire Bid for Hamilton Seat His Policy Speech
"The free and independent, non-party, non-sectarian, and anti-Communist candidate," is how Alderman Jenner, who opened his campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grass Fires
New Lambton fire brigade turned out yesterday morning for a grass fire on vacant land in Brett-street. The grass was put out with buckets of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aberdare Fire Shop and Dwelling Destroyed
Damage estimated at £1200 was caused by a fire at Aberdare on Saturday night, when a five-roomed, weatherboard shop and dwelling at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →King's Hall Fire Between Roof and Ceiling Heavy Damage
Smoke pouring from every aperture in the roof of the King's Hall in Perkin-street, Newcastle, provided a thrill for several hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Newcastle Fire Memorial Hall Damaged
Damage estimated at £2000 was done when a fire thought to have been caused by the short-circuiting of the electric wiring occurred in the billiard-room of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Fires Two Inquiries on
Mr. G. Brown, Cessnock district coroner, said to-day that he had fixed Friday, September 9, as the date for inquiring into two recent Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Abermain Fire Engine
A modern fire-fighting engine is to be installed at Abermain fire station within the next fortnight. The chairman of the Fire Board…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Hotel SYDNEY
A fire Which broke out in the dining-room on the ground floor at the Grand Central Hotel, Clarence-street, shortly after 5 a.m. to-day, destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Destroyed by Fire Heddon-Greta. Store
A weatherboard building, conducted as a store and post office by Miss Roberts at Heddon Greta, was totally destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →City Fire Sample Room Damaged
A fire in a manufacturing sample room on the first floor of a building at 17 Wolfe-street, occupied by William Thomas Crawford, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"BLACKGUARDLY!" Counsel Cross-fire Piddington Inquiry Sydney
At the outset of to-day's deliberations of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the charges made against the Industrial Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →House Burnt Down "Careless Use of Fire" Open Verdict Inquest at Cessnock
"In my opinion the fire broke out in a front verandah room on the right-hand side and was caused through careless use of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Aberdare Fire
Mr. G. Brown, Coroner, held an inquiry at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday morning into the fire which occurred on August 20, and totally destroyed…
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