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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1933

880 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 44

Cottage Gutted Fire at Argenton Occupants Lose All

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 September 1933 · page 6

Mr. and Mrs. N. Taylor and Mr. R. Chapple, of Montgomery-street, Argenton, lost all their belongings in a fire which completely destroyed their house…

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Fire at Enmore Furniture Factory Burnt Other Premises Damaged Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 September 1933 · page 6

Firemen engaged in a stiff battle last night against a fire which destroyed the entire premises and stock of Mr. F. A. Dennings's furniture factory in Enmore,…

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Theatre Burnt Damage Estimated at £5600 Early Morning Kyogle Fire Lismore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 September 1933 · page 7

The Tivoli Garden Theatre, a one storey building, and one of the few wood and iron structures remaining in Kyogle, was totally destroyed by fire early this…

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Fire Brigades Demonstration Organisation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 5

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Newcastle Volunteer Fire Brigades' Demonstration was held on Saturday night. Mr. J. Beswick presided;…

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Storeroom Blaze Firemen Make Good Save Radio Equipment Damaged Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 7

Firemen made a good save in the city to-night when a fire broke out in the premises of If. Rowe and Co. Pty. Ltd., in Park-street…

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Fire Brigades Volunteer Demonstration City Council Prepares

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 5

A special effort will be made to attract visitors to Newcastle during the week next March, when the volunteer fire brigades will hold their demonstration…

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Reichstag Fire Prisoner Not a Terrorist London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 1

Telling his story, unfalteringly, and impressively, Tolger, one of the Reichstag fire prisoners, gave the impression…

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Hunger Strike Ended Van der Lubbe Still Pale Reichstag Fire Trial Leipzig, September 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1933 · page 7

The Dutchman, Van der Lubbe, who, with Herr Ernest Torgler and the Bulgarians, Dimitrova, popoff, and Taneff, is on trial on a charge of treason arising…

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Woman's Realm Camp Fire Ball Governor Receives 20 Debutantes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1933 · page 10

The stage at Newcastle Town Hall presented an unusual decorative scheme last night, when the Camp Fire Ball was held in the presence of the Chief Scout for New South Wales. His Excellency Air Vice-Marshal, Sir Philip Game, C.G.B., K.C.B.,…

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Debutantes Who Were Presented to the Governor at the Camp Fire Ball Last Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1933 · page 5

BACK ROW (left to right)—Misses Joyce Dewey, June Rodd, Dora Legge-Willis, Gwen Huff, Jean Coghill, Marjorie Whan, Mary Lee, Evelyn Smith, Claire Joscelyne, Laurel Kemble-Kerr. FRONT ROW (left to right)—Misses Marjorie Yearby, Beatrice Taylor, Doreen Howarth, Edna Young, Nell Smith, Emily Hyde, Alma Evans, Joyce Young, Lucy Powell, Marie Drew…

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"Kept in Chains" Herr Torgler's Outburst Reichstag Fire Trial Defended Communist Party (Australian Press Association.) LEIPZIG, September 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 September 1933 · page 7

When the trial was resumed to-day of the Dutchman, Van der Lubbe, Herr Ernest Torgler, and the Bulgarians, Dimitrova, Popoff, and Taneff, on charges of…

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Small Lambton Blaze Fire-fighting in the Rain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 7

Lambton and New Lambton fire brigades turned out at 7.45 last night to a blaze that seriously damaged a garage and tool-shed and their contents. It was…

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Factory Fire Spectacular Blaze at Mayfield Main Building Saved Firemen's Splendid Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 7

Part of the soap factory of J. Kitchen and Sons Pty. Ltd., in George-street, Mayfield, was destroyed yesterday afternoon in a fire remarkable…

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Fire Brigades Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 6

Mr. J. P. Beswick, volunteer firemen's representative on the Board of Fire Commissioners, speaking at Taree, said that the South Broken Hill Brigade had…

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Dances of the Week Camp Fire Ball Unique & Brilliant Decorations

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 5

The brilliant red glow from a huge log fire in the foreground of the stage threw into artistic effect the wonderful colorings of the grant…

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Illicit Still Piano Tuner Fined £150 Fire Brought Police Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 8

Claude Henry Francis, 52, a piano tuner, was fined £150 on each of two charges of having had an illicit still on his premises, and having possessed illicit liquor, when…

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Cobar Copper Mine No Water to Check Fire Dense Sulphur Fumes Cobar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 8

In the absence of a water supply nothing can be done to prevent the spread of the fire in the Great Cobar copper mine. As the mine property contains many…

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Prisoner Embarrasses Judges at Reichstag Fire Trial Refused to Be Silenced Leipzig

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 1

To-day's session of the Reichstag Fire trial ended with the guards forcing one of the Bulgarian accused…

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Van Der Lubbe Laughs Reichstag Fire Trial London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 7

Stalwart "Brownshirts" were seen to-day for the first time in the precincts of the Supreme Court, says the Reichstag…

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Fires Outside Brigade Area

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1933 · page 8

Addressing the Board of Fire Commissioners, the Deputy-Mayor of Tarce (Ald. W. P. Chapman) asked whether, if the fire brigade went a certain distance…

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