Method of Fighting Fire in Colliery Inspector Tells Commission Evidence Taken At Maitland
Disagreement with the method adopted to quell the fire which broke out in Waratah Colliery on November 16,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1939
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Identity Not Now an Issue Piha Fire Case Hearing Deferred Wellington (N.z.)
When Gordon Robert McKay, 43, and James Albert Talbot, 38, appeared on remand at the Auckland Police Court to-day on a charge of having improper…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Waratah Mine Fire Theories on Cause Given Before Commission Value of Proto Equipment Questioned
The Outbreak of fire at Waratah colliery last November was considered before the Royal Commission on Health and Safety in Mines at West Maitland yesterday. A Miners' Federation witness said he doubted the value…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Jumble Sale Arranged for Bush Fire Victims
The Combined Red Cross Societies met yesterday at the reception room in the City Hall. The Mayoress of Greater Newcastle (Mrs. G. W. Jenner) presided…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BALLARAT'S 17 Fires This Year Ballarat
Part of a weatherboard house in Skipton-street, Ballarat, was destroyed early to-day by a fire believed to have been started by an incendiarist. It was the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Colliery Fire Inspector Criticises Management Before Commission Method Used "Ill-advised and Reckless"
The action of the management of Waratah colliery in attempting to fill out a fire in the old workings of the colliery last November…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →No Fire Under Miners' Office Site
The Northern Miners' Management Board will meet on Monday, April 17, when the report of the executive on the new building proposal will be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Buildings Lost in Sawtell Fire Early Morning Outbreak Brigade's Nine-mile Dash Grafton
Damage exceeding £2000 was caused at Sawtell when a fire demolished three buildings in the main street at 3 a.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Relief in Europe, So Far Hitler Added No Fuel To Fire Delicate Week-end Passed Safely London
There has been a cautious sigh of relief over Europe to-day. Nobody attempts to forecast events, but the feeling is that Herr Hitler's reply to Mr. Chamberlain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Turnstiles Burnt Fire at Racecourse Quick Work by Firemen
Quick work by the caretaker of Newcastle racecourse and firemen from Headquarters at Cook's Hill and from Hamilton and Adamstown prevented the spread of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Flogger-tail" Coat in Fire Relief Parcel Melbourne
A tin-opener, a fly-spray, and a "flogger-tail" coat, which a 62-year-old bush fire sufferer in the Noojee district received in a parcel as relief goods, did not come from the State Relief Committee or the Red Cross Society…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Destroys Shop Man Narrowly Escapes Police Investigating Sydney
Police has been instructed to investigate the fire which destroyed a shop in Booth-street, Annandale, early to-day, and from which John Margaret, 50, narrowly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Church Fire Sequel Young Hawker for Trial MELBOURNE
On charges of having unlawfully set fire to St. Anthony's Church on March 27 and Our Lady's Church on March 17, Robert George Marsh, 18, a hawker,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tar On Fire
A barrel of tar, which became ignited near the Cessnock Railway Station to-day, cast a smoke pall over the locality. Cessnock Brigade extin- guished the outbreak. A railway truck, in which the barrel was standing, was damaged by the names…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Arson Suspected in Big N.Z. Fires Auckland
Since the disastrous fire at Goldie and Sons' mill. Freeman's Bay, Auckland, on the night of Sunday, March 5, police have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tar Catches Fire Much Smoke, Little Damage
A tank of tar on the goods platform It Cessnock was being heated yesterday when it boiled over on to an adjoining truck and burst into flame. Volumes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maid Started Fire London, March 20
Because she was tired of her job, a 16-year-old servant girl set fire to her bedroom in the hope that she would lose it…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rebuilding Delayed Deeds Lost in Bushfire Problem of Land Ownership Melbourne
Rebuilding at Wood's Paint, which wan wiped out by the disastrous bushfires in January is being delayed because deeds for the land were destroyed by the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Die in Studio Fire London, March 22
Four people lost their lives in a fire to the Brunot cinema studios at Saint-Cloud, Paris. One man was burnt to death in the fire itself; three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diamond Found in Fire Ashes London, March 10
After an hotel lunch, Mr. Harold Arnold, manager of a Croydon (England) cinema, found that a £200 diamond was missing from his signet…
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