City Light Charges Under Fire Exorbitant Profits Suburban Bodies Tell Minister "Had the Whip Hand" Sydney
Newcastle Council is making exorbitant profits from the resale of electricity to other councils, and is…
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Fires & bushfires, 1932
743 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 38
Fire Brigades Wagga Wagga Competition Newcastle Preparations
At the monthly meeting of the Newcastle District Partially-paid Fire Brigades' Association, held at Hamilton, the main business dealt with was the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Store Destroyed Volunteer Fire-fighters Wellington (N.s.w.)
Extensive damage was caused by fire which broke out at the Great Western Stores and Edgley's. Ltd., at Guerie, a few miles from Wellington, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shack Gutted Nobbys Camp Blaze Young Couple Destitute
About 7.30 o'clock last night the one roomed shack of Mr. and Mrs. J. Burgess, at Nobbys unemployed camp, was gutted by fire. As they were visiting a friend…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bob in Fund Homeless Couple at Nobbys Camp. Lost All in Fire
To be left without shelter and only the clothes they were wearing was the plight of Mr. and Mrs. Burgess whose hut on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bob-in Fund Nobbys Camp Fire
The unfortunate couple at Nobbys unemployed camp, who lost everything when their hut was destroyed by fire on Sunday night, began to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Shot Dead Police Fire on Communists BERLIN, July 26
Communists, in attempting to demonstrate, in defiance of the ordinances, fought the police. One woman was shot dead, two men were seriously wounded,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Ship Coal in Bunkers Ignites No Damage to Vessel Hobart
A fire occurred in the port bunkers of the S.S. Yarra where slack coal is stored, at 7 o'clock to-night. The fire brigade was summoned when dense volumes of smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Close the Windows" Is the Order Then Berlin Police Fire at the Open Ones Berlin
One of the first results of the order to the police to make timely use of their weapons was seen in Berlin to-day when the Communists…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newtown Mystery Fires SYDNEY
Dramatic developments are expected to-day as a result of police inquiries into four outbreaks of fire last night in a house in Lord-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stockton Fire Brigade Effort
A women's committee has been formed to raise funds to defray expenses of the Stockton team at the Fire Brigade competition at wagga Wagga, in October. The…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ship Undamaged Fire in Yarra's Bunkers HOBART
Au investigation was made to-day into the cause of the fire which occurred in the port bunkers of the steamship Yarra. A quantity of coal was removed, and it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tar Plant on Fire
Newcastle and Hamilton fire brigades were called out to-day to a small fire at the Newcastle Council Electric Department's far plant in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four Fires in House Incendiarism Suspected SYDNEY
An arrest is expected as a result of police investigations into four mysterious outbreaks of fire in the house of Mrs. J. Harris, 82. in Lord-street. Newtown, last…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boolaroo Fire Brigade Contests
In preparatior for the forthcoming interstate fire brigades' demonstration, to be held at Wagga Wagga in October, the selected team of six members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Alarms Placed Out Of Commission Marrickville Store Destroyed "Wireless Maniacs" Blame for Big Fire Sydney
People, described by Deputy Chief Officer Grimmond, of Fire Headquarters, as "wireless maniacs,"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman's Clothes Caught Fire Death in Hospital Sydney
Her clothing ablaze from the waist upwards and calling for help as she ran about, Mrs. Mary Jennings, 63 a widow, living at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Defective Alarm Fire Brigade Delayed Parts Taken by Thieves Sydney
A small furniture store in Farr-street, Marrickville, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Some of the contents might have been saved had the fire brigade been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carburettor Catches Fire
"D.R.," Wallsend, writes: "My car has covered about 15,000 miles, but a couple of times recently, when starting from dead cold, fire has broken out in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Storm Damage Lightning Starts Fires Matraville and Hornsby Sydney
A number of chickens were destroyed and a horse was burned in two fires caused by lightning in last night's storm at the home of Mrs. A. M. Culverwell,…
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