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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 42
More than 10,000 gallons of water were poured on to the flaming stock of a box factory at Mary-street, St. Peters, to-night, in half an hour by fire brigades…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Restoration of the right of mine-owners to hire and fire employees was discussed in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With the bushfire season approaching, the Bushfire Advisory Committee, which was established by the Government a year ago, is about to launch the most intensive campaign that has ever…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Katoomba report that a fire engine was held up to-day for 12 minutes at a railway crossing when answering a call to a fire Leura, and arrived at the fire 20…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Excitement was caused in Bear's furniture store, Thorne-street, Newcastle, this morning by a small fire which started on a circular display…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) has decided to hold an inquiry into the fire which destroyed the pithead structure at Ayrfield No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →While a case was being heard in the Napler Supreme Court, one of the counsel interrupted the proceedings. "If your Honor pleases," he said, "I…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Fire Brigade attended two small fires in the city yesterday. When there was short circuit in electric wiring on the ground floor of Bear's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Employee continued their work to-day while firemen were quelling an outbreak on the roof of the bedding factory of John Lawler and Son Proprietary Ltd., in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Fire Brigade was called this afternoon to a fire in the pit top or the historic Glebe pit. near the Glebe tram terminus…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fire which broke out this morning in the main shopping centre of Kilmore a township 43 miles from Melbourne destroyed a shop a solicitor's office and the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →After East Maitland fire Brigade under the supervision of Inspector W. J. Bartle of Newcastle headquarters had pumped about 36,000 gallons of water from an…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Several employees at a garage at Hastings were burned about the arms as they pushed motor-cars to safety when a fire and explosion occurred in the…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A weatherboard shop and dwelling at Main-street. Abermain, was totally destroyed by fire at 1.50 a.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Early this morning a weatherboard house in Cowan-street, South Grafton, belonging to Miss Linda Bellamy and tenanted by Francis M. McGuren, was gutted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A married woman and her two children yesterday saved their home at Baring from destruction. When fire was discovered, Mrs. W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Twenty men fought at Sawyer's Gully, near Weston, to-day to save their homes from the most extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The West Maitland Fire Brigade was called out to a grass fire in a paddock behind the Parish Hall in Hunter-street, West Maitland, yesterday morning. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fifty police searched with dogs the bush at Epping for a burglar who to-day fired a shot at two house-holders and fled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A weatherboard shop and dwelling in Main-road, Abermain, owned by Mrs. Lillian Balley, and occupied by Mr. J. W. Quinn, were totalled destroyed by fire…
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