Grass Fire at Adamstown
Adamstown Fire Brigade was called out to a Brass fire in Hampton Avenue Adamstown, shortly before 1 p.m. to-day. An area of about three acres…
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Fires & bushfires, 1941
363 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 19
Warner's Bay Fire
Mr. J. Short's home, Warner's Bay, was destroyed by fire. Boolaroo Fire Brigade was summoned, but the place was almost burnt out when it arrived. The…
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New Lambton Fire Brigade was culled out to-day to deal with a gross fire which broke out near Collaroy-road. New Lambton. An area or about…
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LONDON, March 31. A.A.P.—The famous Bath Club in Piccadilly has been destroyed by fire. The fire was not due to enemy action. Only the walls…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sharp Note From Vichy British Exchange of Fire
LONDON, March 31. A.A.P.—Exchange of shots between French shore batteries in Algeria and British warships was the result of action on the part of the…
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Overheating of bitumen caused a fire at the Gibson Foundry in Gibson Avenue. Cook's Hill, this morning. Newcastle Fire Brigade was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Fires at Wallsend Brigade Captain Suspects "Firebug"
"I think there must be a firebug in Wallsend," Captain W. Dobell, of Wallsend Fire Brigade, said last night, after the brigade had attended a grass fire off…
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SYDNEY, Friday Morning.—Hundreds of bales of wool were destroyed by fire in the store of A. R Allen and Co. in Harbour-street, Sydney, early this…
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LONDON, April 11. A.A.P.—Mr. Ernest Hunter, President of the Union of Journalists, at the annual meeting, criticised the Service Departments'…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister-in-Charge of N.E.S. (Mr. Primrose) said to-day that £15,000 had been provided by the Government to purchase equipment…
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The Minister in charge of National Emergency Service. Mr. Primrose, announced yesterday that the Government had provided £15,000 for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disastrous Fire in Japan
TOKIO, April 17. A.A.P.—Fire swept through Shinminato Machi in the Toyama Prefecture, yesterday, and destroyed 500 homes Fifty persons were injured in…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Berlin Chequered with Fires in Biggest R.A.F. Raid London
More R.A.F. bombers, carrying more bombs than ever before, participated in last night's raid on Berlin, the Air Ministry News Service reveals. "The city was chequered with fires—for the most…
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LONDON, April 21. A.A.P.—Aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked objectives at Cologne last night, the Air Ministry announces…
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LAKEWOOD (N.J.), April 21. A.A.P.—Five thousand soldiers are fighting a large fire, which is sweeping across the western section of Fort Dix, the United…
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Little damage was done by a fire which broke out in Caldwell's dance hall in Hunter-street, Newcastle, shortly before 3 o'clock this morning…
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NEW YORK, April 22. A.A.P.—An unidentified aeroplane pilot, swooping low over the fire-ravaged woodland near Fort Dix (New Jersey), guided 80 army…
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WASHINGTON, April 28. A.A.P.—Fire has destroyed one of the buildings of the United States Navy powder plant at Indian Head Maryland, the Navy…
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Governor Lehman closed New York State's vast forest preserve to the public to-day as a raging forest fire consumed thousands…
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