Bush Fire Deaths Open Verdict Returned MELBOURNE
The City Coroner (Mr. Tingate) returned an open finding to-day at the conclusion of evidence into the deaths of 12 persons who lost their lives in the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 44
Champion Brigade Fights Two Fires Narrandera
The Narrandera fire brigade, which won the Webb Shield and Westaway Casket at the Fire Brigades Demonstration at Katoomba last week, gave two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in Lift Shaft of Bank London
The timely arrival of clerks to begin work prevented a serious fire in the city premises of the National Bank of Australasia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Demonstration Too Realistic Celluloid Factory Fire SYDNEY
Forty employees (30 girls and 10 men) of Celluloid Products had to leave quickly when a three-storied building in Paddington caught fire to-day…
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The Combined Red Cross Societies, which are appealing for funds for victims of the recent bush fires announced yesterday through the President, the…
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Miss Edna Healey, 18, a domestic, was shot yesterday by a bullet which exploded in a copper fire she was stoking at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Victim's Estate Part May Go to Relief Fund MELBOURNE
Alfred Bentley, Saxton, sawmiller, who was burned to death at his mill at Fumina on January 14, left an estate valued at £10,500. His wife lost her life in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →McKAY'S WEALTH Experiments That Paid N.Z. Fire Mystery Inquiry Sydney
Gordon Robert McKay, 43, whose reported death in a fire at Piha, New Zealand, early last month is being investigated by police in New South Wales and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Damaged by Fire Almost Completed French Liner Burnt for Three Hours St. Nazaire, March 9
The almost completed liner Pasteur, being built to replace the ill-fated giant French liner L'Atlantique, which was destroyed by fire, is believed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Loss by Red Tape Allegation at Victorian Inquiry No Power to Burn Breaks Melbourne
Evidence that red tape had prevented men from fighting a serious outbreak was given at the Bush Fires Inquiry to-day. Holford Lempriere, an orchardist,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl Injured When Bullet Exploded in Fire Sydney
When Miss Edna Healey, 18, was stoking the fire under a laundry copper at Parramatta yesterday, a bullet exploded. She was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →By Papuan Waters Ottwell Binns Chapter Xv. Fire in the Dubu
The young chieftain gave a drunken laugh, lurched a step, took the cup from Sonana's hand, drained it at a gulp, and flung the cup in Carrington's face. In…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Firemen Had to Go Out in Rain Small Fire at Technical College Building
Despite the almost continuous rain last night, firemen found their services required ashen they were called to a five at the Wood-street branch of Newcastle…
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Fifteen persons including seven children, were fatally injured in a fire during a gale at Hakodate. Six buildings were destroyed…
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Edward Prior. 19. of Marriekville and John Burke, 10, of Glebe, were badly burned yesterday when at tin of methylated spirits ignited in an iron foundry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Safe Blowers Cause Fire Wellington (N.z.)
In blowing open a safe at the premises of an auctioneer in North Palmerston, burglars set fire to the building. The men secured £50 from the safe and…
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Gifts of clothes received by the Combined Red Cross Societies for sufferers in the recent bush fires. Engaged in the sorting are: Mrs. D. Watkins, the Mayoress of Greater Newcastle (Mrs. G W Jenner) Mesdames W P Rodgers, D. G. Richmond, and R. Kil[?]ur…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rescued Mother and Maid Woman's Courage In Fire SYDNEY
Twice early to-day Mrs. Ethel O'Grady ran through flames to rescue her elderly mother and a maid who were trapped in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →15 Dead in Warehouse Fire in Japan Tokio, March 13
When a warehouse at Hakodate caught fire daring a gale, 15 people were fatally injured, including seven children. Six buildings were destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Lit Fire to Warm Myself" Youth Tells Coroner SYDNEY
"I lit that fire to worm myself, and it got away from me," Frederick Kelly, 17-year-old dairy hand, is alleged to have told a constable after…
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