Launch Gutted Fire Follows Explosion Sixteen Persons Saved Wellington (N.z.)
When fire followed a violent engine-room explosion, the modern 35ft. cruising launch Lady Pam was destroyed in Auckland Harbour to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1938
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 42
Fire Checked N.Z. State Forest in Danger Wellington (N.z.)
After great stand, a fire-fighting organisation got control of a fierce scrub fire which threatened the state forest near Rotorua to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Regulations Behavior in the Bush Leaving Fires And Picking Flowers
To avoid prosecution motorists should know that there are certain stringent regulations governing bush behavior…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seven Floors; No Fire Escape Sydney
Asking for a report on existing fire safety provisions. Alderman O'Dea at the City Council Works Committee meeting yesterday, said that a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blayney Man on Trial Crown Allegations About Fire BATHURST
A story of footmarks having been found outside a burning building was told by the Crown Prosecutor in the Circuit Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires and Wildflowers
Campers and picnickers are reminded by the National Roads and Motorists' Association that they are required to comply with the provisions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire at School Strike Workers Acted Quickly
The presence of members of Swansea Strike Committee, who were waiting to distribute oranges to the children, prevented a possibly serious fire at Swansea…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Man Incinerated Cigarette Blamed for Fire DUBBO
A cigarette is believed to have set fire to a house in which Norman Duley, 48. an abor[?]gine, was burned to death last night. The fire was not noticed until…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Men for Trial Grocery Store Fire SYDNEY
At an inquiry to-day into a fire at the Toongabbie grocery shop of William McChire on September 5, the Parramatta District Coroner found that it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£1000 Sydney Fire Tyre Company's Building Damaged SYDNEY
A weatherboard building occupied by the Gurton Tire Company in Nicholas-street Woolloomooloo, was severely damaged by fire to-night. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"I Was Set on Fire," Says Youth Two Committed For Trial MELBOURNE
Allegations that during the lunch hour at Brunswick factory, lacquer thinners had been poured down his back and he…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mothers' Heroism Vain Effort to Save Infants in Forest Fire Fort Frances (Ontario), October 12
Fourteen lives were claimed by a forest fire which swept homesteads over an area 50 miles wide. The remains of two women and nine…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Palestine Murders Arabs Fire Factory London
Terroritls continue to com[?] outrages, throughout Palestine, Arabs and Jews being kept in dread by frequent murders and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charge of Arson Tamworth Shop Fire TAMWORTH
The Deputy Coroner (Dr. A. H. MacTaggart), at an inquiry to-day into the circumstances surrounding a fire which occurred on the night of Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire Trap Man Throws Aunt Through Window Alarm Given by Dog Sydney
Awakened by his dog, which licked his face, John Shepherd, 27, found his home at Coogee alight this morning. Fighting his way through the flames to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Serious Burns Man in Garage Fire Lightning Strikes Car Heavy Storm Hits Sydney SYDNEY
With his clothes alight, Alan Kevin Hynes, 21, of Arncliffe, was rescued from a blazing motor garage at the rear of his home…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Balloon Caught Fire WARSAW
The balloon in which two Polish scientists proposed to ascend into the stratosphere from the Carpathian Mountains caught fire to-day and was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Balloon Damaged by Fire Warsaw, October 14
A stratosphere balloon caught fire and was seriously damaged on the eve of making an attempt on the world stratosphere record…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A Fire Too Many At Incinerator
There was a fire too many at the Parry-street incinerator to-day, Newcastle fire brigade was called when it was found that timbering in the bulkheads…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bushfires Rage in Victoria Forest Areas Burnt Out Township Encircled Melbourne
Bushfires to-day caused anxiety in many parts of the State, with rising temperatures and strong northerly winds. Mr. R. S. Code, Forestry Commission…
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