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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 44
Finding that the Executive Council had not the power to proclaim a danger period for the lighting of fires on dates other than those recommended by the Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Because they were asked to pack surplus donations of clothing for bushfire victims for consignment to France for Spanish war victims, voluntary workers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →J. Day, captain of Merewether Fire Brigade, played the chief part in subduing a grass and bush fire, which menaced a garage and three or four houses…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The attitude of the mine owners was that because miners at the end of the day's work could sing, dance, catch cold…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Under authority given by the Minister for Health, the remains interred as those of Gordon Robert McKay, of Sydney, were exhumed, at dawn this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A fire among dry grass on a vacant allotment in Brown-street, Wallsend, between St. Luke's Church of England and the residence of Mr. H. Scott-Daisley, was…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →A fire to-night practically destroyed the old "Advertiser" newspaper building at Parramatta, used by the "Cumberland Argus" as a store. The damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Scene of a wartime explosion which cost 3000 lives, Halifax again had a ghastly disaster this morning when 21…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is officially stated that 22 persons were killed and 569 were injured in the fire and explosion in a munition ware—house on the outskirts of Osaka. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →FEATURES of the musicale at the Supper Room at the City Hall yesterday afternoon, arranged by the Com-bined Red Cross Societies of Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A young man's ignorance was his bliss as he stood on a box and gazed over the crowd at a blazing building at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For the second time in a week, the Went Maitland fire brigade was called out last night to the West Maitland Town Hall to find that the call was a false alarm…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →BARRAGE BALLOONS in the course of construction at the Dunlop factory, Manchester, England. New equipment is speeding large-scale production. MR. HORE-BELISHA, British War Minister, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Men women, and children clung to the windows piteously begging for aid, only to drop back into the flames, when fire swept the historic Queen's Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Another development in the case of Gordon Robert McKay was the dispatch of a message to California asking police there to endeavour to interview a man…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The underground chitter fire beneath the Trades Hall now only makes Us presence visible and felt when It rains…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pathologists have established that human bones were recovered from the Piha fire, but they cannot say that the remains are those of Gordon Robert McKay. Their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pursued by flames and half-suffocated by fumes from blazing celluloid, 30 girls and 10 men to-day fled from a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A right claimed by the Water Board to hire and fire employees encased on its works in the Lake Shire was mentioned last night at the meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inquiries to be made in Sydney to-day by Detective-Sergeant Alford, of Newcastle, are expected to throw some light on the mystery of the…
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