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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires

Fires & bushfires, 1937

706 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 36

Fire in N.Z. Cheese Factory Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1937 · page 4

Damage estimated at £6000 was caused by a fire which partly destroyed the Cambridge Company's cheese factory at Rotoorangi to-day…

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Lunatic Asylums Inefficiency in France Sequel to Fire Tragedy London, December 28

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 December 1937 · page 8

Revelations of scandalous inefficiency in French lunatic asylums have been made since the fire at Le Puy, states the Paris correspondent of the "Daily…

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Big Increase Inquests at Newcastle Fewer Fires Reported

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 4

More inquests were held at Newcastle this year, but there was a big decrease in the number of fires reported, the District Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) said…

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Year's Record of Fires and Fighting Them Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 7

Up till' 9 a.m. to-day firemen in this State had answered since the beginning of the year 3947 calls, of which 1039 were false alarms…

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Fire Drama Men Driven Back Mother Rescued Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 7

After two men had tried in vain to save her children from a burning flat, Mrs. Mary Lee, of Horridge-street, Bary, ran through thick smoke and brought…

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Destroyed by Fire Queensland Station Homestead TOOWOOMBA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 4

Jondaryan Homestead, on one of the largest grazing properties on the Darling Downs, was destroyed by fire early this morning. Of its contents, many of them…

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Four Men Injured Two Motor Vehicles on Fire Car Destroyed at Lakemba Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 4

Burns were sustained by three men, when a motor-car burst into flames in Punch-bowl-road, Lakemba, early to-day. A man was involved in a similar accident at…

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