Nazi Fliers Seek to Fire Harvest
LONDON Monday (AAP): In most of their scattered raids on England lately. German filers have been showering Incendiary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 22
Emergency Bushfire Brigade For Morisset
Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night appointed Messrs. H. Collins (Cooranbong). R. P. Sylvester (Morisset). P. Kelly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Circus Animals Were Trapped in Fire
NEW YORK, Tuesday. (AAP). —Between 50 and 60 animals were burnt to death or shot to put them out of pain as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Urged Not to Scatter Fire Too Far New York, Tues. (AAP).—Japan's successful invasion of Papua is bad enough strategically, but it will be worse if
There is a limit to the reinforcement of the South-West Pacific at the sacrifice of more vital lines and more active fronts,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush Fire Brigades in Tarro Shire
Prompt action to implement a request by Tarro Council for the formation of Bush fire brigades in its area was reported to the council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Engine From Sydney Fought Mittagong Fire
MITTAGONG.—A fire engine from headquarters. Sydney, covered 78 miles to Mittagong in under two hours last night to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire at Brewery Maltings
MITTAGONG, Thursday Morning— Late last night a fire severely damaged Tooth's maltings, one of the main buildings of the town…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Body Incinerated in Fire in Home at Gateshead
Trapped in a burning cottage in Sydney-street, Gateshead, near Charlestown, just before midnight last night, a person, presumed to be the owner and occupier, Arendale Stella Louis, aged 50, a pensioner, was incinerated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Will Hold Up Beer Production Big Fire at Mittagong
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Production of beer at Tooth's brewery, Sydney, will be held up as the result of a fire, which lost night caused much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire in Offices
About 5 a.m. to-day Cook's Hill Fire Brigade was called to an outbreak in rooms occupied by Dr. Watkins in the Commercial Bank…
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When a four-roomed cottage, in which she had lived for two years, caught fire early yesterday morning, Arendale Stella Louis, 48,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Compulsory Fire Guard Duty for Women
LONDON, August 7.—The Home Secretary (Mr. Morrison) announced that owing to serious shortages of fire guards in the target areas,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Women Conscripted For Fire Fighting
LONDON, Friday (AAP).—British women have been ordered to take their place among the fire guards in all areas vulnerable to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Destroy Contents Of Two Salvage Bins
The contents of two salvage paper containers, one in front of Newcastle Post-office, and the other at the intersection of Hunter and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombay Police Fire on Violent Crowd Interruption to Work in Mills Extends
LONDON, Aug. 10.—Rioting continued in Bombay to-day following the arrests of Congress Party leaders yesterday. In the Dadar area of Bombay this morning the police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Again Fire on Rioters
LONDON, Aug. 12.—Bombay police to-day fired on a crowd at Nasik. The rioters were attempting to snatch arms from the police who were escorting prisoners. They stabbed several constables and freed one prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Celluloid Makes Big Blaze in Factory
SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire to-night seriously damaged the factory of A. E. Patrick Pty. Ltd., badge manufacturers, of Parramatta-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bombs Set Fire To Desert Target
CAIRO, Saturday. (OSR and AAP)—Light bombers heavily raided one of Rommel's forward bases yesterday morning and left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Old People's Home at Randwick
SYDNEY.—Prompt action of 68-year-old Arthur Keogh, a volunteer fireman at Grafton 48 years ago, averted a tragedy when a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heffron's Sole Right to Fire Wardens
The Minister for NES (Mr. Heffron) now has the sole right to dismiss chief and deputy-chief wardens…
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