Fire Risk at the Mental Hospital Wooden Walls Near Escape Stairs SYDNEY
Fire risks at three mental hospitals in New South Wales are emphasised by the Director-General of Mental Hospitals (Dr. Wallace), who mentions, in…
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Fires & bushfires, 1939
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 44
Dangerous Fire Risk Three Mental Hospitals Newcastle Included Sydney
Newcastle Mental Hospital is one of three in New South Wales faced with dangerous fire risks, according to the annual report of the Director-General of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Blind Girl Saved Her Mother in House Fire Sydney
A 17-year-old girl's blindness probably saved her mother from being burned to death when a fire destroyed a four-room shack at "hill 60," Yarra Bay, early to-day. Forced by her affliction to live in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Danger of Bush Fires Yet District Better Equipped to Fight
The danger period in which bushfires might occur has not arrived yet, according to Inspector W. J. Bartle, district fire chief…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fire Damages Lorry
A lorry owned by Mr. A. H. Duggan was severely damaged by fire in the garage at the rear of his business premises in Vincent-street, Cessnock, last…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Should Not Start Fire Flick at Muswellbrook
Recently it was stated in the "Newcastle Horning Herald" that the reciprocation between the National Coursing Association and the New South Wales Trotting…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Scepticism Grows Munich Beer Hall Explosion Another Reichstag Fire ? (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, November 10
Scepticism is growing about the German explanations of the bomb explosion in the famous Beer Hall at Munich on Wednesday night shortly after Herr Hitler and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →First Bombs on British Soil Raids on Shetland Isles No Serious Damage Hot Fire Drove Off Nazi Planes London
Four German bombers made two raids on the Shetland Islands to-day and dropped bombs which gouged holes in the ground 6 feet deep, shattered windows of Crofters' 'cottages and damaged an empty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →200,000 Footballs Lost in Blaze London, October 25
More than 200,000 footballs stocked ready for the coming season were destroyed by fire in a factory at Huddersfield, England…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →800 Perish in Huge Oil Fire Injured Taken to Relief Camps Montreal
More than 800 people have been killed or injured in a huge fire at Port Lagunillas in Venezuela, reports the Caracas is regarded as the third…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Oil Fire in Venezuela Hundreds Trapped in Blazing Houses (Australian Associated Press.) MONTREAL, November 14
More than 800 people were killed or injured in a huge fire at Port Lagunillas, in Venezuela, reports the Caracas correspondent of the American Associated…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fire-Bugs Have Complex, Dog Poisoners, Too SYDNEY
"The person who wilfully poisons dogs or starts fires is usually a weak-minded type and does it to compensate himself for a feeling of inferiority," said Dr. A. H. Martin. Honorary Director of the Australian Institute…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Professor's House Destroyed by Fire Adelaide
professor J. McKellar Stewart, Professor or Philosophy at Adelaide University, his wife and their three sons had a narrow escape when their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →May Not Exceed Fifty Death Roll of Oil Fire CARACAS, November 17
Although early reports that the death roll from the huge oil fire at Port Lagunillas, Venezuela, ran into hundreds, the Government Commission sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Big Fire in Edinburgh London, November 19
A fierce fire in central Edinburgh in the midst of a black-out attracted thousands of people who watched the destruction of Cadbury and Fry's chocolate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Was Quickly Controlled Fire at Joinery Works
Prompt action by the Newcastle Fire Brigade averted serious damage at the joinery works of G. Dixon and Co., Dick-street, Cook's Hill, yesterday. A fire broke…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Scout Admits Starting Fifteen Fires New York, October 31
A college graduate, active in church and Boy Scout work, was in the observation ward of Kings County Hospital last night charged with arson…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Canteen Fire Caused Only £5 Worth of Damage Sydney
Damage done when a canteen was fired troops at Ingleburn camp last night was only about £5. The canteen proprietor, Mr. H. F…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Belgium, Holland Warned Must Not Fire on Nazi Planes Reported German Notes Paris, November 20
According to the newspaper "Excelsior," Germany has sent Notes to Belgium and the Netherlands warning them not to attack…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Botany Fire Wool Scouring Works Destroyed Workmen Lost Clothes Sydney, Wednesday morning
Damage estimated at £12,000 was caused when a fire swept through the wool scouring works of H. Lupton and Company, of Botany-road, Botany,…
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