Mysterious Fires Thirteen in Two Months BALLARAT
Mysterious fires, which have occurred at Ballarat East since November 13, reached a total of 13 early on Saturday, when a large weatherboard dwelling and…
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Fires & bushfires, 1934
745 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 38
Fire Brigades Newcastle Demonstration Details Being Arranged
A meeting of the executive committee of the Newcastle Volunteer Fire Brigades Demonstration was held at Headquarters Fire Station on Saturday afternoon. Mr…
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When Fire Brigade officials inspected the remains of a shop at Stockton this morning, which had been gutted by fire early yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Hayshed Loss to District Exhibit Collection Destroyed Tamworth
When a fire destroyed a hayshed at W. H. Lye's property, Wylella, Loomberah, near Tamworth, yesterday, a large collection of the material for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire at Singleton Singleton
A fire occurred on Saturday night, in a weatherboard house in Walter-street, occupied by Mr. A. J. Horne and family. The fire brigade effected a good save,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hay Stack Burnt Fire Sweeps Through Wheat Field Inverell Farmer's Loss Inverell
Police are investigating the cause of a fire which destroyed, early this morning, a large stack containing 15 tons of hay, the property of Edward Smith, farmer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bushfires Rage in Tasmania Homes Threatened Hobart
Every available man and woman and child at Mount Lloyd labored in swirling smoke and terrific heat last night to save their homes from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Towns in Danger Tasmanian Bush Fires Homesteads Destroyed Hobart
Fierce bushfires threatened to wipe out the township of Fitzgerald, 40 miles from Hobart, to-day. Men, women, and children fought the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Board Election
Mr. George Barnes, who is a candidate in the forthcoming election for the Board of Fire Commssioners as a representative of the partially-paid members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Speed and Action Big Fire Brigades Display Bright Pageants
Newcastle's contact with the fire brigades in the past, has been confined principally to a fleeting vision of a swiftly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Brigades Preparations for Big Display Raising Prize-money
In response to the request of the Volunteer Fire Brigades Demonstration Citizens' Committee, the Mayoress of Newcastle (Mrs. R. G. Kilgour) convened a ladies'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire on Launch Footballer's Prompt Action Eight Men on Board Grafton
Timely action by Bert Monday, the well-known footballer, saved the crew of a fishing launch from disaster in the early hours of this morning. The launch left…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Widespread Damage Tasmania's Bush Fires HOBART
Bush fires are still raging in the Davenport district, and widespread damage has been caused. Settlers banded themselves together in an effort to check the flames,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fires In Tasmania HOBART
Bush-fires have caused tremendous damage in the Derwent Valley and Huon districts. Many persons are homeloss, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ice Resists Fire
The value of modern refrigerators was demonstrated at a recent tire at Stockton. Thirty-eight hours after the blaze in a shop where a refrigerator was installed,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Currumberne Fire Inquiry
An inquiry is to be held into the cause of the destruction by fire of the wooden steamer Currumberne, a 200 ton vessel, which was burned to the level…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Man for Fire Board District Support for Alderman Croft
A determined effort to secure the election of Alderman Croft as country representative on the Board of Fire Commissioners is to be made by…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Bush Fires Near Bathurst BATHURST
A big bush fire has been raging in the Bathurst district for the past few days, but to-day the flames are confined to scrubby country…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Bush Fires in Tasmania Lives Imperilled Hobart
The lives of at least three men are in danger as the result of huge bush fires which are raging in most parts of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fierce Bush Fires Damage in Tasmania Homes and Timber Mill Man Dives in Creek for Safety HOBART
Huge bushfires are still raging in the Huon and Derwent Valley districts, and flames are leaping forward on a wide front with remarkable rapidity. All efforts to…
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