Women Helped Fight Bush Fires
GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Women helped morn fight bush fires which threatened banana nod tomato plantations between Grafton and Wool…
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Fires & bushfires, 1942
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 22
Raf Lights Huge Fires in Ruhr
LONDON, Tuesday: Eno mous damage, causing hug' lanes of fire, was again in. flicted on Osnabruck, the…
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Wallsend Fire Brigade was called to a grass fire on land near Robert street, Wallsend, yesterday. The fire did no damage and was soon…
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About 10O old motor tyres and a collection of scrap rubber were severely damaged by a fire on a motor lorry In Wollombi Road…
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Resulting from the overheating of a gas copper, a fire occurred yesterday in a cottage in Beckatt-street Hamilton, occupied by Cedric…
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KATOOMBA.—Katoomba and Leura fire brigades were called to a fire at midnight at "Lillanfels" guest house, Echo Point…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—An American pilot recuperating after, being shot down over Port Moresby, was killed when he fell from the fire…
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Greater Newcastle Coucil's charcoal producing undertaking it Thornton is expected to be back to normal production…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fire caused damage estimated at £2000 at Warragamba Dam, in the Nepean River, at the week-end. A toolshed and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£50,000 Fire in Melbourne
MELBOURNE: For two and a half hours this morning firemen battled with a blaze that destroyed part of the Yoffa hosiery…
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After returning from Thornton yesterday, Mr. Roy Horton, Who is in charge of charcoal production for Greater Newcastle Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Egypt Is Ready to Blaze London
With both sides heavily reinforced and conditions ideal, the Egypt front is likely to blaze open this week…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Many large fires were caused in the Prussian cities of Frankfurt on Main and Wiesbaden by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charcoal Fire Cause a Mystery
Almost every charcoal storage shed in the country had been subject to fire, the Acting Parks and Building Surveyor (Mr. Horton) said at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When Sentries May Fire
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A War Cabinet decision defining rights and powers to sentries and guards to arrest or fire on suspected persons…
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NARRABRI, Sunday.—Damage, estimated at £25,000, was caused when a fire gutted the business premises of Foxe and Company yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mayor Renews Demand for More Police; Fire in Park Building
Renewed demand for more police supervision and protection was made by the Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Aid Young) to-day, following a fire which early this morning partially destroyed the new brick pavilion on No. 2 Sports…
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A fire which broke out in the No. 2 Sports Ground pavilion early yesterday moraine did damage estimated at mare than £500…
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A fire in the vestibule of the Civic Theatre early this morning damaged a lounge settee. Constable W. Phillis. who was patrolling…
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LONDON, September 1.—A message from Stockholm says that a great fire swept through the big Marma timber yards at Soderhamn…
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