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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 22
SAIGON, Thursday: Annamese revolutionaries have kidnapped a number of Europeans and burned down the markets in Saigon. They have stolen the fire engines and are believed to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A complete unit and two brigades fought bush fires which started in gullies in the Chatswood district this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fourteen fire stations formerly controlled by Newcastle will be transferred to the control of the newly-created Maitland fire district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage estimated at £50 resulted when a short circuit caused a fire in a motor-lorry owned by Mr. G S. Reay. of Regent-street. New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAIRO, Sept. 30. A.A.P.—A fire broke out on the Empire Patrol, a 10.000-ton vessel repatriating Greek refugees from Abyssinia and East…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday: Seventy people, including women and children, are missing, feared killed, on a blazing repatriates'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MARYBOROUGH, Sunday.—Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused yesterday when the Maryborough sugar mill was almost destroyed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, October 1. A.A.P.—Seventy persons, including women and children, are missing, feared killed, from the Empire Patrol (3330…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire destroyed the contents of a storeroom in Barton's Follies enclosure in Wharf-road, Newcastle, yesterday. Dresses, stage props, ballet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Tuesday: The order to "cease fire" has been given in southern Indo-China. This followed agreement at a meeting in Saigon between French…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COLOMBO, October 2. A.A.P.—It was stated officially that a cease fire agreement was reached at a meeting between the French authorities and the Annamese Independence Movement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HOLLYWOOD, Thursday.—The honeymoon of Betty Hutton and her Chicago business-husband. Ted Briskin, was interrupted by a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.— Three thousand gallons of wine flowed down the hillside below the Woodley wine cellars at Glen Osmond in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →William Robertson Liddell, a Tarro dairy farmer, was granted a non-suit at East Maitland Court yesterday, when he sought £50…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rubbish on a council garbage truck ignited in Hunter-street West yesterday. Workmen endeavoured to extinguish the flames without success…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →NYNGAN, Friday.—The Deputy Coroner (Mr. H. L. Hopkins) commended the heroism of Noeleine Beatrice Muirhead, 14, who was burned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Gail Mary Walker, 2, of Dundas, was severely burned about the body, face and legs when her clothing caught alight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The campaign for prevention of bush fires will open on November 19, said the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MADRID.—Scientists believe that mystery fires in the mountain town of Lavoya are due to special magnetic conditions in the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A mobile canteen to be used by voluntary aids to serve refreshments in bush fire areas has been obtained by New South Wales Division of the…
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