Fire Risks
Insurance company managers and directors are apt to harp on the growth of fire risks. Moot of the fires are due to carelessness, as was recently shown in a…
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Fires & bushfires, 1927
484 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 25
Warringah Fire Bowling Club Suffers SYDNEY
Despite the fact that their club house was razed by a fire this morning, warringah bowlers rather than cancel their carnival to-day, had tents…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Fire Brigade Presentation to S.s.o. W. Penman
Sub-station Office W. Penman, who has been in charge of the Newcastle East fire station for the past nine months, and who has been transferred to the charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Canada Claims Over 100 Lives Hankow Exodus American Refugees at Shanghai Trouble at Kiukiang Japanese Press Attacking Britain
Following the taking over of the British Concession at Hankow, the Southern Chinese forces have occupied the British consulate at Kiukiang, and the Consul has taken refuge on a destroyer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prevention of Bush Fires Sydney
The State Cabinet to-day decided that the committee of three recently appointed to inquire into bush fires and their possible prevention should be…
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The reflection from a red globe in the interior of the Newcastle and Suburban Co-operative Company's Store, in Hunter-street West, was…
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Replying to a question from Mr. Ball, in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) said that the matter of giving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Narrow Escapes Big Annandale Fire Two Injured Sydney
Exciting scenes and narrow escape marked a big fire which broke out at 1.30 a.m. to-day in Parramatta-road, Annandale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Too Much! Fire Board's Upkeep Councils Protest
Hamilton Council, at its last meeting, expressed dissatisfaction at the Fire Beard's proposal to increase the councils' contribution towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£175,000 DAMAGE Big Sydney Fire Flour Mills Gutted Railway Spark Blamed SYDNEY
Damage estimated at £75,000 was caused early this morning, when a fire swept the Northern section…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heroic Mother Life Sacrificed to Save Children Trapped by Fire Seven lives Lost in Disaster at Birmingham
After, refining to be rescued until all her children had been removed from her bunting home in Birmingham, a mother of eight died in hospital. The fire seized the stairway, cutting off the occupants and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Lives Lost in Birmingham Night Fire Terrorism in China Anti-strike Leader Murdered Other Victims Marked Crime Regarded as Significant
Chinese Reds, ty the murder of a tramway employee, have commenced a policy of terrorism against Chinese sym-pathisers with foreigners in Shanghai. It is said that several other Chinese employees of foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sparks Responsible Bush Fires in West PARKES
Inquiry by the district coroner into the origin of the bush fires. which swept from Alectown west to Wellington-road early last month was…
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A disastrous fire occurred in a small house in Birmingham occupied by Charles Pedley, his wife, eight children, and a girl named Dora Barker…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Steamer Olga Melbourne
A fire broke out among some sulphur in the hold of the steamer Queen Olga, unloading at Yarraville, and the clothes of William M'Shane, 32, a stevedore, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heat Wave Scorching in the West Big Grass Fires Sydney
It was a hot day in the west yesterday and to-day opened with a promise to more. Yesterday While Cliffs and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pen-notes and Pencillings. with Respect to Bush Fires
Addressing the oversea Prime Ministers at the time of the Imperial Conference in London, the British Air Minister spoke of the many uses of the aeroplane, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Blaze on City footpath
Petrol which had leaked on to the pavement, in Scott-street was ignited by a carelessly tossed match to-day. An alarm was given to the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire in Hamilton
A six-roomed house, constructed of wood with iron roof, at 14 Lindsay-street, Hamilton, was damaged by fire yesterday afternoon. The house is owned and occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wyong Fire WYONG
Caused, it is stated, by the over-turning accidentally of a kerosene lamp, on which water was thrown, the five-roomed cottage, occupied and…
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