Ballot Proposed Fire Board Candidates "Neither Would Win"
Alderman Cornish was nominated unopposed as the City Council candidate for membership on the Board of Fire Commissioners last night…
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Fires & bushfires, 1928
543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 28
Bush Fires Outbreaks in Victoria Narrow Escapes Melbourne
Many lives were endangered and much damage done to property by bush fires, which raged throughout Victoria yesterday and last night…
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The Mayor of Waratah (Alderman J. L. Cowle), will not be a candidate for the Fire Brigade Board. In a letter to New Lambton…
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"The Fire Brigade," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's great romance of the heroism of the fire-fighters, will be shown on Monday at Herbert's three theatres…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Board Alderman Cowie Withdraws
Alderman J. L. Cowie. Mayor of Waratah, will not be a candidate at the forthcoming election for the Fire Brigades Board…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires in Cotton Mills
A serious epidemic of fires is occurring in the Bombay cotton mills, and stores. The total damage is estimated at £45,000…
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Raging bush fires, attended in one case by the collapse and death of a volunteer fire-fighter, caused great havoc throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →House Destroyed Disastrous Mayfield Fire Block in Danger
The whole of the soldiers' settlement at Mayfield West, near the Public School, was in danger of being wiped out by fire this…
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Reports from most bush fire centres were much brighter to-day, the change of wind yesterday having enabled the firefighters to get the outbreaks under…
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How the Royal mail steamer Niagara rescued the crew of the Doris Crane, which was burned 350 miles north of Hawaii, on December 20, was also told…
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A disastrous fire, which destroyed a weatherboard cottage and its contents, occurred early yesterday morning in Groougal-street, Mayfield West…
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"The Fire Brigade," a Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer production which comes to Herbert's Theatres on Monday, is a dramatic story of a family of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire on a Motor Launch
It is reported from Berlin that one of the great motor launches used to convey Hamburg's dock labourers to work caught fire in the river Elbe yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Popular Science Fighting Fire with Soap
Soap[?]ds are used to extinguish fires by a new German device. Particularly useful in smothering petrol or benzine fires where streams of water would be…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Kurri Fire Brigade Permanent Man Wanted
Residents of Kurri are agitating for the appointment of a permanent officer at the Kurri fire station. They claim that the population alone…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire on Naval Ship Coal Cargo Alight. Sydney
A fire occurred this afternoon among 3000 tons of coal aboard the steamer Member a coal supply ship attached to the Commonwealth Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mystery Blaze Sydney's £75,000 Fire Building Gutted Sydney
Sydney's fire chiefs arc completely mystified as to the cause of the sensational are in Wyayard-square yesterday. The blaze…
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A defective chimney was responsible for a fire at the [?] previously known as the [?]West Maitland to-day…
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Charles Ray and May McAvoy are the featured players in "The Fire Brigade," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's conception of the life of a fireman, which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Sydney in Wynyard Building Sydney
Damage probably running into £100,000 was caused by a fire which practically destroyed Wynyard Building, in Carrington-street, Wynyard Square, Sydney, this…
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