Save Thousands New Rates for Fire Insurance
New fire classifications granted to the Newcastle district and to come into force in July would, the Mayor (Ald, Norris) told the…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
439 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 22
Fire Brigades Men May Refuse Some Jobs
SYDNEY.—A State-wide partial stoppage by permanent firemen at fire stations is threatened. Stating this…
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LONDON, Friday,—Medical officers parachuted into France with supplies ranging from surgical instruments to sulfa drug…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—When claims for hush fire losses closed with the Bush Fire Relief Committee the total received was 2270…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A bush fire which swept through the western districts of Mount Blue, Berrybank, Werneth and Mannidabar, causing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raid on Japan Cost Two Super-fortresses Fliers Saw Large Fires In Industrial Cities
NEW YORK, June 16. A.A.P.—It was stated officially in Washington that the target in Japan attacked by the Super-Fortresses was Yawata, an industrial town in the northern part of Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese islands…
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Following on the transfer to Stanmore of Officer R. Galbraith, who has been in charge of West Maitland Fire Brigade for the past…
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LONDON, June 20. A.A.P.—Coordinated attacks all along the northern front in the Cherbourg Peninsula have brought the part under artillery fire. This was revealed in a communique from Supreme Allied Headquarters in Normandy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Inspect Fire Damage At Aberdare Central
Conditions are ready on the pithead at Aberdare central Colliery for the breakage of the seal to permit an inspection of workings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boomerangs Cut Way for Troops Through Jungle—draw Jap Fire
Cutting swathes through the jungle and the Kunai grass with their withering gunfire, Australian - built Boomerang planes have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Fires To Warm Courthouse
To combat the cold, cheerless and fireless atmosphere of Newcastle Courthouse. Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, SM. said today that no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Kills Five Trotters
AUCKLAND.—A fire in stables at Christchurch, owned by Mr. C. S. McDonald, one of the leading trotting trainers and studmasters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ironworkers' Claims Challenge B.H.P. Right to Hire and Fire
The demand on the B.H.P. (Newcastle) and Australian Iron and Steel (Port Kembla) by the Amalgamated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Courthouse Has No Fires
"It is not due to a lack of zeal by the caretaker, because he is a treasure in himself," said the Magistrate (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Shore Batteries Return Fire
Shots from enemy batteries at Cherbourg send water spouting high around H.M.S Glasgow She was one of enemy British warships bombarding Cherbourg to help the American land drive which resulted in capture of the city…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Factories Gutted in Spectacular Fire
BRISBANE, Thursday—A specutacular early morning fire at Y[?]rougpilly destroyed two box mills, a plywood mill, and a glue factory,…
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NEW YORK, July 2. A.A.P.—The captain of a destroyer saved his blazing ship by giving it a bath in the wake of the aircraft-carri[?]…
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Shortly before 2 o'clock this morning Newcastle Fire Brigade received a call to the premises of Gordon Smallgoods Company, Hamilton,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Brigade Strike Meeting in Sydney
Meeting of firemen at Sydney Trades Hall yesterday morning being addressed by the President of the Fire Brigades' Association (MR. Lambert). A general strike was called becasue of the suspension of 14 men for declining special duty because they were not provided with overcoats. Later the strike was settled…
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SYDNEY,—Eight, wharf laborers clambered to safety through choking smoke today when cargo in the hold of a ship in which…
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