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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 36
Despite her earlier reassuring message the steamer Welcombe (5122 tons), which is on her way to England from Newcastle (New South Wales), sent out a radio…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The first representative match of the 1937 season of the Newcastle Rugby Union will be played to-day, when a Newcastle XV. will meet the Metropolitan Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The intercity mail 'plane caught fire when about to leave Sydney for Brisbane yesterday. The machine and much of the mail were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thousands of people on their way to work watched as a fire to-day gutted the eighth floor of Film House in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The fire in the chitter dump beneath the Trades Hall, which has been dormant many months is showing signs of revival. At the rear of the hall…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Four children were thrown to safety from, the windows of a blazing house when a fire broke out in Winchester, England early the other day…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The presence of mind of an eight years old boy Bobby Johnson, of Lorn, saved the life of his six years old playmate. Brian Hill, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The only match held by the Newcastle Rugby Union yesterday was played at Mitchell Park, where a Newcastle XV. met the New South Wales Fire Brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Police believe that a rocket was responsible for a fire which broke out last night on the shingle roof of a bathroom at Mosman…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Every unit in the Newcastle military area took part in a Royal review at the Showground yesterday. It was the Army's tribute to the King and Queen, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Civil Guards clashed to-day with Republicans who were attempting to hold a banned parade to repudiate the Coronation of the King as King of Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →With smoke belching from the windows (above) firemen mounted the steel extension ladder to pour water on to a fire which severely damaged Sidney Riley's photographic studio in Film House (Sydney). The bottom picture shows the interior of the studio. Firemen prevented the flames from reaching film vaults…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Fire is one of the things that man has not entirely succeeded in mastering end its primitive appeal to the instincts of fear and curiosity is present…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage estimated at more than £12,000 was caused by a fire which broke out on the eighth floor of Film House, Pitt-street today. The whole floor…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The overheating of fat in a stove caused a fire in the kitchen of a weather-board cottage, owned by the estate of the late Mr. J. Enright, and occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A large area of grass was destroyed by fire in the West Maitland Courthouse reserve yesterday afternoon. The West Maitland Fire Brigade extinguished the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Twenty girl pupils and their teachers made a hurried escape from their beds when a fire occurred at the Queenswood Girls' School, Hastings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Set on fire by rebel incendiary bombs, and then subjected to machine gun fire, Amorebiet and Lemona, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Avro Avian 'plane, owned by a Mackay syndicate, was destroyed by fire in a hanger at the city aerodrome last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Fire Brigade was called out this morning to a car on fire in Watt-street, Newcastle, but on arrival found that the owner had…
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