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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
828 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 42
Newcastle has been almost encircled by bushfires in the past few days. Everybody deplores the fact, realising the tragedy that fire can bring to home and farm and forest tract; but fires recur from year to year and their beginning is too often due to the sheer carelessness of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To obviate fire danger at Cessnock, owners of scrub-lands in the municipality will be compelled by the council to burn off the growth on their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A warning that the present weather was likely to continue for some time and that the danger of fire was considerable, was issued to-day by the State…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir,—In answer to some remarks of Mr. Isaac Hoare, in last Friday's issue, which purposed to reply to a previous statement of mine, let me say that I frankly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT IS unusual for a fire to take place without the brigade being informed. A five-roomed weatherboard cottage, unoccupied, and owned by Henry…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Some of the thousands who watched the fire in a city fish market early last night. All traffic in Scott-street was suspended for had an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Firemen busy at last night's Scott-street fire, when a fish market was gutted. Dense smoke poured out of the burning building, hampering the fire-fighters…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →When honeysuckle on a house at Spencer's Gully, near Inverell, was ignited from a grass fire the flames spread quickly over the building. An attempt…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Interior of premises occupied as a fish market in Scott-street, Newcastle, was gutted by fire early last night. The dense…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ready assistance has been forthcoming for the people in the Jesmond unemployed camp who suffered in last Saturday's bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two grass fires in the suburbs had the attention of fire brigades yesterday, Waratah Fire Brigade received a call at 2.4 p.m. to proceed to Georgetown-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Boolaroo brigade received a call this afternoon to a bush and grass fire near a dairy conducted by Mr. P. Bounty at Fairfax-street, Speer's Point. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →George Bright, 36, superintendent of Sava fire brigade, was drowned in a boating accident in the Rewa River. He was a native of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A fire to-night in the factory of Proud's Ltd., in Day-street, city, gutted the top floor and caused damage estimated at £2000…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Northern miners' check inspector on the Newcastle field (Mr. I. Hoare) has directed the attention of the executive to a detailed report in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Houses in Marshall Street, Main Road and Grand View Road, Cardiff, were menaced by fire which swept through about 60…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Grazing lands at Motto Farm, near Raymond Terrace, were swept by bushfires on Saturday night. The farm was once a racecourse, but in recent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With temperatures breaking records at Maitland and on the Coalfields on Saturday and Sunday, bush fires again plagued the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney again was ringed by fire to-day. Firemen were called upon to fight nearly 40 outbreaks in bush and scrub…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following the formation of a relief committee at Cardiff to help victims of the recent bush fires, authorised collecting lists were distributed to collectors…
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