Fire in Mine Buildings
A fire in the surface buildings of Elermore Tunnel colliery, Wallsend, on Saturday, was discovered in time to save serious damage…
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Fires & bushfires, 1944
439 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 22
Fire in Butcher's Shop
An electric motor in a butcher's shop in Maitland-road, Islington, caught fire yesterday morning. The fire was extinguished by firemen…
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BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—Fire has broken out in a tunnel leading off an open cut in the Proprietary mine. It is feared it might extend…
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Fire brigade, officials reported last night that Miss. Joyce Plumbe had been selected as "Miss Newcastle" in the State-wide fire brigades queen…
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PORTLAND.—In his finding, upholding the action of the Portland butcher, Mr. P. Dargin, in dismissing a girl assistant the…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.—The fire in the drive, of an old open-cut mine is draining the already depleted water supply. Two fire…
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With a view to having the locality reclassified for fire insurance, Lake Macquarie Shire Council adopted a recommendation of the Health…
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SYDNEY: In one of the most spectacular waterfront fires Sydney has seen for years, a wharf was destroyed…
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A wall and the roof a weather board cottage, occupied by Miss M. Osborne, Maitland-road, Mayfield, were damaged [?] fire yesterday…
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BROKEN HILL, Tuesday.—After a three-day fight the fire in the old open-cut mine workings has been brought under control. It is…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Much cargo was lost in a fire which destroyed a wharf on Sydney waterfront. The fire, which almost trapped 12…
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PERTH, Tuesday.—Air mail which arrived in Western Australia to-night caught fire in the van shortly before reaching Perth G.P.O. Several of…
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LONDON, Wednesday. — A German "ghost" weapon tricked Tommies storming a Brittany village into searching for…
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A five-roomed cottage owned and occupied by Mr. Thomas Doyle, in Deakin-street, Kurri Kurri, was practically destroyed by fire early…
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LONDON.—Three boys, each aged 11, admitted in the Juvenile court at Croydon. England, having put a flaming mixture of…
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NEW YORK, Aug. 13. A.A.P.— Damage estimated at millions of dollars was caused by two disastrous fires in New York at…
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NEW YORK, Aug. 14. A.A.P.— While the embers of the spectacular Coney Island blaze were still smouldering, fire swept through the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Salt Water and Fire Cured Brinawa
FIRING of Brinwa's nearside knee and almost daily visits for some weeks to Merewether Beach for an hour's wading, have…
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Fires in street salvage bins and other damage is causing concern to the Greater Newcastle Salvage Committee…
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The motor which draws one of the new trailer buses operating from Cessnock caught fire in Maitland-road, Cessnock…
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