Blaze In Shelter For Unemployed Men Were Absent Thorn-street Outbreak 12 Rooms Gutted
While every occupant was away at the Sports Ground for the dole check to-day, the residential and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1932
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Two Destructive Fires
Fire destroyed the office at the timber mill of Messrs. W. Langley and Sons. Ltd., Langley Vale (writes our Tarec correspondent). As safe containing shoot…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Fire at Aberdare
A fire, which resulted in little damage broke out in a three-roomed unoccupied weatherboard cottage in Melbourne-street, Aberdare last night. It was reported…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Destroys House at Aberdare
Cessnock Fire Brigade received two calls from Aberdare last night. In one case only slight damage was done to the laundry of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thorn-street Fire Unemployed Shelter Damaged
Three rooms were destroyed and approximately 19 others damaged by smoke and water, when a fire broke out in "Craignest," a property owned by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Japanese Killed Bandits Near Mukden Incendiary Fires Tokio, August 28
No fewer than 300 bandits are practically surrounding the north-east wireless station in the suburbs of Mukden. In severe fighting several Japanese were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire on Waterfront 600,000 Dollars Damage SACRAMENTO (Calif.). August 28
Fire swept a section of the waterfront on Sunday, causing 600,000 dollars damage. The fire was caused by an explosion on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Incinerator Debates Haven't Lost Fire Long City Discussion Revival Motion Carried a Busy Sitting
If Prometheus had looked in at last night's meeting of the City Council when the incinerator was under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wallsend Fire Brigade Novelty Band
The Wallsend Fire Brigade Novelty Band has assisted in the raising of £900 for charitable and other good purposes, and has won the seven contests in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dressmaker Burned Tried to Quell Fire SYDNEY
Mr. Maxwell Rosen, one of the proprietors' of Rosen and Reynolds, dressmakers, of Traynor House, Elizabeth-street, Sydney, was severely burned about the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Burnt to Death Old-age Pensioner Fire in Boarding House Melbourne
When a fire broke out in a bedroom of a boarding-house in Stephenson-street, South Richmond, at midnight last night. Thomas Gallagher, 66, pensioner, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£2000 DAMAGE Fire at Riverstone Main Block Threatened Sydney
When fire broke out in two shops in Windsor-street, Riverstone, early this morning, the main shopping block was seriously threatened, and a woman and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Shops Destroyed at Cessnock Mystery Blaze at 3 A.m. To-day Statement to Police
Three shops were destroyed by a fire in Vincent-street, Cessnock, at 3 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arson Proved Two Years' Imprisonment Fire at Bowenfels Sydney
Sentence of two years imprisonment was imposed by Judge Curlewis on Major Davenport, 30, when he was convicted at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Early Morning Blaze Two Shops Destroyed
Two weatherboard shops, anongst the oldest in the business centre of Cessnock, were completely gutted by fire early yesterday morning. They were in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Insurance Lake Shire Townships Premium Reduction Refused
The Fire and Accident Underwriters Association has declined to reduce fire risk premiums on insurances in the Boolaroo. West Wallsend, Cardiff, Toronto,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Tariff Fight Federal A.L.P. Attack Scullin Opens Fire Canberra
The Federal Labor Party to-day began an attack on the Government's tariff policy in an endeavor to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Still Burning City Council Incinerator Another Motion
Newcastle's incinerator, around which has centred a score of heated debates, will be the subject of yet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lost Their All in Fire Unemployed Seamen Destitute
Taking up the case for the men who lost all their belongings when the unemployed shelter at the old All Nations Hotel, Newcastle, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire in Sydney Damage Estimated at £10,000 SYDNEY
Although it was raining heavily, a fire broke out in a building of three floors occupied by McLeod's Pty., Company, soap manufactures, in Mentmore-street,…
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