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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 44
Francis Harmsworth Way, chartered accountant, told the Parliamentary Select Committee inquiring into firemen's hours that one of the heaviest of the annual fire insurances losses—£340,501—had occurred in 1927, one of the peak years of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gordon Robert McKay, an Australian merchant, who has been missing since a fire destroyed a shack at Piha on February 12, was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Unaware that a fire had broken out in the cooling system, hundreds of people patched the programme at the Regent Theatre in George-street to-day. What…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Three bomb explosions, two in Birmingham and one in Coventry, occurred in Britain to-day. Irish Republican Army terrorists are…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The bush-fire that destroyed houses and other property in the Sutherland Shire on Saturday, January 14, the day on which the temperature broke all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An attempt to burn a dead horse caused a blah fire, which destroyed a number of properties in Sutherland Shire on January 14, it was stated at Kogarah…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Troops were hastily called out early this morning to guard the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, following a series of terrific explosions. These were caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Detectives are investigating, another Ballarat fire which threatened a boiling-down works and slaughter sheds and damaged outhouses of the home of Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It has been officially stated that there is no reason to suspect sabotage as the cause of the explosions at Woolwich. A fire occurred earl, on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A linen press und portion of the ceiling in the hall at Mr. H. J. Stedman's residence, Dunbar-street, Stockton, were damaged by fire early this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire destroyed St. Anthony's Catholic Church at Alphington to-day and then spread to an adjoining house, which was saved. The contents of the church were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Large blazing embers carried by the wind from the burning five-storey Victoria House and Hallenstein Bros.' three-storey building in Wellington,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twenty thousand spectators to-night saw a big fire in the heart of Wellington destroy a seven-story building known as Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A new policy for the protection of forest areas was placed before the Bush Fire Commission to-day by the Chairman of the Forest Commission (Mr. A. V…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Because of the drought, which shows no sign of breaking, sheep are being sold at ridiculously low prices. Grass fires are rapine in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Worried by mosquitoes at his home at Mulbring last night Frederick Bromage 30. made a fire in front of his house to drive the pests away. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two employees of the Hunter District Water Board were burned yesterday afternoon in an explosion of gas at Myola-street, Mayfield. One man was taken to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Referring to the general construction of the building, the architects (Messrs. Pitt and Merewether) explained to-day that its resistance to fire was particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Detectives investigating fires which destroyed Roman Catholic Churches at Sunshine and Fairfield arrested a young man at Ringwood to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The continuance of the dry spell has resulted in graziers sending most of their sheep to the stock sales" and as the supply is for in excess of demand prices…
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