West Wallsend Fire Picture Film Blaze
Prompt action by members of the staff prevented the spread of a fire which broke out in the Strand Theatre. West Wallsend, during the screening of last night's…
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Fires & bushfires, 1929
760 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 38
Yallourn Brown Coal Blaze — Flames Sweep Dandenong Ranges
BURNING TREES AND LEAPING FLAMES — bush fires in the Dandenong Ranges, which ravished much beautiful country in Victoria during the week-end. SOME OF THE ENGLISH CRICKETERS after having been down a gold mine during their recent visit to Bendigo From left to right — H. Larwood, L. Amert E.F. Wood (manager of the mine). F.C. Toone (Englishmen's manager), D.R. Jardine, M.Leyland, and S.J. Southerton (Reuter's representative with the team). They all look as if they could do with a wash…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Belmont Proposed Fire Brigade
A meeting of ratepayers of Belmont, South Belmont, and Marks' Point was held in the Literary Institute, Belmont, on Thursday evening, to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£12,000 Damages Furniture Factory Fire Melbourne
About 5 o'clock this evening a fire broke out in the furniture factory of Stapleton and Lewis, in Lennox-street, Richmond, resulting in £12.000 damage,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Bug? Big Sydney Blaze SYDNEY
Firemen saved the £40,000 of stock and the three-storey building from destruction of Bond and Co.,. Ltd., drapers, Oxford-street, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fires
During the week-end, grass fires ravaged country between Rutherford, Lochinvar, and Windermere, causing serious losses to graziers and dairy owners…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Suspicious Fire
Premises occupied by the Mayfair Club, in Pitt-street, Sydney, caught afire on Saturday morning, but the firemen extinguished the outbreak before much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stand Threatened Fire at Whittingham SINGLETON
Waittingham racecourse grandstand was threatened about noon on Saturday by a fire, which came across the road from Percy Brown's property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bellbird Fire Water Board Office Open Verdict
Mr. J. T. Richards. Coalfield Coroner, conducted an inquiry at Cessnock Courthouse to-day into a fire which destroyed a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Toronto Bush Fires
Residents in various parts of Toronto had a very trying time owing to the bush fires again breaking out in the vicinity of their homes. The dry spell is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Fire in Sydney
A fire which broke out in premises occupied by Bond and Co., Ltd., drapers, Oxford-street. Darlinghurst, yesterday morning, caused damage to the extent of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland District the Bellbird Fire Open Verdict
Mr. J. T. Richards, District Coroner, held an inquiry at the Cessnock Court-house yesterday into the fire which occurred in the shed of the Hunter District…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Wallsend Fires
Bushfires were burning [?] in the West Wallsend district from Killingworth through Barnsley to West Wallsend on one side and from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →10 FIRES Newcastle Brigades Busy Houses Menaced
To-day's scorching heat caused many outbreaks of fire in Newcastle district. Ten fires had been reported to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Fire Among Weeds
A fence was slightly damaged yesterday afternoon as the result of an outbreak of fire among grass and weeds on a vacant allotment in Macquarie-street. The flames…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Fire Extensive Damage Wool Store Destroyed Two Firemen Injured Sydney
Many thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused by a fire which broke out at the Australian Wool and Produce Company's premises,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Burnt Out Fire Brigades' Report
After a heavy day yesterday fighting bush fires. Newcastle' Are brigades had a rest to-day. This morning there was not a call…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland District Great Bush Fires Laguna District
One of the worst bush fires in the memory of old settlers of the Laguna district has been raging since early yesterday. It had control of both sides of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heat Wave Returns Newcastle 99 in the Shade Bush Fires Rage
There was a return of heat wave conditions at Newcastle yesterday. In the early part of the day the wind was from the north-west, and finally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heroic Women Fought Fierce Bush Fires Belmont Endangered Heavy Damage at Fassifern
Fifty heroic fire-fighters, including women and young girls, saved Belmont from the fierce bush fires which threatened to destroy the township late yesterday. As it was, three dwellings were destroyed…
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