Cargo Undamaged in Ship Fire
A fire which broke out in the chart room of a large vessel in an Australian port yesterday morning destroyed some of the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1943
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 16
Big Fires Left at Buka
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday.—Allied aircraft switched their main attack to the Solomons yesterday, when operations were…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday.—The greatest fire seen in Tamworth broke out to-night at premises at West Tamworth. Damage is…
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SYDNEY. — The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) will take action to ban the new luxury night club which…
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SINGLETON, Wednesday.—A sedan car and motor-lorry, with the shed in which they were parked, a quantity of petrol and kerosene,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Action to ban the new luxury night club which, it is planned, will open on June 1 on the site of the old…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—When fire severely damaged a storeroom and its contents, including £1000 worth of tyres, at Arthur Annabel's dairy and…
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NEW YORK, April 11.—Roscoe Barnett Welansky, owner of the Cocoanut Grove night club, was convicted on 19 counts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blondie's Family Fire Dogs
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Drill for Waratah Wardens
All NES wardens at Waratah are to receive instruction in fire-fighting methods from an officer of the Fire Brigade Headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swedish Guns Fire on Nazi Planes
STOCKHOLM, April 15.—A low-flying German bomber that appeared near the Swedish naval base of Karlskrons was turned bark by…
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LONDON.—A major and his wife, who died when fire swept. part of a Staffordshire mansion. are thought to have lost their…
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Cook's Hill and Newcastle East fire brigades attended a small fire in the verandah awning of the Westminister Hotel last night. There was…
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A fire, which broke out this afternoon in a two-storey dwelling at Tighe's Hill, spread repidly to an adjoining housed and…
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All that remained of a two-storied weatherboard house destroyed by fire in Union-street. Tighe's Hill yesterday afternoon. A single-storied house on one side was alos destroyed and a third house on the other side damaged. Story, Page 2…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two boys, aged 5 and 6, started a fire which destroyed two sheds, two garages and a motor-car late this afternoon…
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Two women each thought the other had been burned to death when a two-stored 60-year-old weather-board house in Union-street. Tighe's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Fires Blaze in Baltic Ports After Raf Raids
LONDON, Tuesday.—Huge clouds of smoke were billowing above the German Baltic clties of Stettin and Rostock, 10 hours after Tuesday night's great raid. In about 40 minutes more than…
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SYDNEY.—Detective are investigating fires, in two untena[?]ed weatherboard houses at Manly last night—one in Maivern Avenue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canvas Theatre Fire Risks Quoted by Aldermen
Fire risks were quoted by Aldermen Richardson and jenner at Greater Newcastle Council meeting last night, in…
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