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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
872 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 44
Light rain sweeping from the coast early to-day brought merciful relief to thousands of men, who for four days had been fighting the most disastrous bush fires in the history of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A sub-committee of Cabinet is considering this afternoon how best the State may assist those who lost homes and other property in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miss Hazel Binns, plucky postmistress at Erica, who was the last to leave when the women were evacuated from the town as the fires roared down on it. Typical of post and telegraph operators through out the bushfire areas, Miss Binns has been working ceaselessly since the outbreak…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Employees of the four national forests in the Northern District have been particularly watchful in the past week. In an interview, Mr. F. E. Hutchinson, Forester, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The transfer of the control of bush fire areas from the land administration to the joint administration of forestry and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weakness in Australian organisation, which, they said, were particularly exemplified in last week's disastrous bush fires, were discussed in a joint radio talk…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Minister for Social Services (Mr. Richardson) was to-day deputed by the State Cabinet to give relief in all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. G. Taylor, 3-year-old wife of a fisherman, of Boat Harbour, near Port Stephens, saved the lives of six persons who were in danger when their house…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some of the cargo which was damaged, by fire at sea on the liner Rimutaka will be sold at auction. Among valuable articles which were saved were two cases…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The bush fire position in New South Wales and Victoria was considerably easier yesterday. Rain in both States had an important…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush fires on Saturday destroyed the back shaft at the old Bulli colliery, stopping the second means of egress from the pit, as required by the mines regulations,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The installation of an additional fire alarm at Neath has been approved by the Board of Fire Commissioners. Both alarms will be connected to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men who had clothing damaged when fighting bushfires in the Branxton Greta district are to be compensated by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Premier (Mr. B. S. B. Stevens) said to-night that Cabinet had decided to assist persons who suffered loss as a result of the recent bush fires…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sydney surfmen to-day expressed resentment at the statement made by the Minister for Education (Mr. D. H. Drummond) that while bush fires raged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Failure of the State Government to organise bodies of men who in emergency, could, be rushed to fight bush fires, was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →More than 1103,000 has been subscribed to the main public funds in aid of bushfire victims…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Nearly a hundred employees had to hurry to safety this afternoon when Charles Dickenson, Ltd.'s, furniture factory at Leichhardt caught fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Glyn Williams, stock inspector, of Rail way Gully, near Grafton, was charged in the Grafton Police Court before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., with having, on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Settlers at Noojee, described as Victoria's hoodoo town, which was burnt out in 1926, and again last week, have already begun to rebuild their homes…
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