Fire Damage at Murwillumbah Hairdresser's Ill Luck Murwillumbah
Damage estimated at nearly £1000 was caused by a fire which last night practically gutted the Blue Room cafe and the office of the New England…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1936
878 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 44
Consigned to Fire Valuable Early Records Loss to Posterity
History will be repeated in Newcastle shortly when the district will be combed for valuable records of the early days. The object on this occasion, however, will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Sun Stop Press Hunter-street Fire
Called to Scott's Ltd. on the corner of Hunter and Perkin streets late this afternoon, firemen found the ground floor filled with smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Switchboard Ablaze Small Fire at City Store
At 5.38 p.m. on Saturday, the automatic alarm at Scotts, Ltd., indicated to Newcastle fire brigade headquarters that an outbreak of fire had occurred in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Old Woman Dies From Burns Clothes on Fire Sydney
Taken to a private hospital at Parramatta in a critical condition, after she had been found with her clothes burnt from her. Mrs. Eleanor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Woman Badly Burned Accident with Match Clothing Caught Fire Sydney, Monday Morning
When they returned to their home in Church-street, Parramatta, shortly before 10 o'clock last night, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Speechley found Mrs. Eleanor…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Worst Film Fire Actors Watched Work Vanish Scenes at Elstree London
Throughout to-day, film actors and actresses who had participated in productions disconsolately watched firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Riots in Syria Police Fire on Mobs Ten Persons Killed London, February 8
Rioting occurred in the three towns of Hama, Homs and Damascus, in Syria, which is an A mandate of the League of Nations controlled by France. Seven…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Elstree Studios Destroyed by Fire £350,000 DAMAGE (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, February 9
A fire, which broke out at 2 o'clock in the morning at Elstree, gutted the studios of British Do-minions Film Corporation, which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →False Fire Alarms
A costly item of the operations of all fire brigades is the expense of turning out to false alarms, averaging about £5. Last year, no fewer than 1878 deliberate false…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Farmer Claims £100 Alleges Loss of Feed Through Fire
Claiming £100 damages, at Newcastle District Court to-day, Henry William Searles and Herbert Frank Searles, graziers,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Damage Fire at Elstree Studios Worst in Film History London, February 9
Throughout to-day film actors and actresses, who had participated in productions, disconsolately watched the firemen clambering over the smouldering ruins of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Herald Stop Press Sydney Fire. Sydney, Wednesday Morning
Damage amounting to many thousands of pounds was caused by a fire which enveloped a two-storey building occupied by P. J. Taylor and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Filmed Own Fire Elstree Company's Enterprise LONDON, February 10
With an efficiency which, in the circumstances, is ironic, one of the film concerns whose premises were involved in the huge fire at Elstree Studios on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers' Claim Grass Damaged by Fire District Court Action
Before Judge Nield, in the Newcastle District Court, yesterday. Henry William Searles and Herbert Frank Searles, of Roworth, farmers and graziers, claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spectacular Fire In Sydney Sixty Fight Flames Cars Crash From First Floor Shocks From Wires Sydney
In a fire which raxed in a building at the corner of Liverpool and Riley Streets about 3 a.m. to-day three firemen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Narrow Escapes Floor Collapses Near Firemen Early Morning Blaze Sydney
The fire in a building occupied by H. J. Baker Tyre Company and P. J. Taylor and Company, motor engineers, in Riley-street, City, early this morning, caused…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire Inquiry at Kurri Coroner's Remarks
An open verdict was returned by the Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) today after inquiring into the fire at Farr's Markets,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmhouse Fire Inquest Held at Griffith Italian's Home Griffith
Howie James Lambert, an insurance officer of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Co. Ltd., told the Coroner (Mr. Savage) at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coloured Sign Short Circuit Causes Blaze
A short circuit in the electrical current supplying a coloured sign at John's Silk Store caused a blaze about 10 o'clock last night. The flame ran up the wall,…
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