Fire Precautions on Farms Compulsory
SYDNEY, Friday.—Regulations recently gazetted require all farmers to fit spark arresters to the exhausts of motor tractors, power-driven…
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Fires & bushfires, 1945
426 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 22
Fire in Paint Shop
A small fire in the paint shop at John Bridge and Co., Waratah, yesterday was put out by Newcastle and Waratah, brigades with a…
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HOLLYWOOD, Tuesday. — The film actress. Gloria Dickson, was suffocated when fire destroyed her home…
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LONDON, Tuesday: A large part of the harbor area of the Spanish port of Cadiz was destroyed yesterday by fire…
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When a fire was caused by electrical equipment under the hauling car of the 6.43 a.m. Wallsend-Newcastle tram yesterday, emergency…
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GUAM, Saturday: Superfortresses from the Marianas in very great strength delivered an incendiary attack on…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—R.A.A.F. Catalinas landed in the open sea off Japanese-occupied Flores Island and picked up Australian survivors…
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GUAM, Tuesday: An enormous explosion, which lit the whole sky over Tokio, was seen yesterday by a Superfortress crew, 137 miles away. THE bomber was returning from the…
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NEW YORK, April 16. A.A.P.—Tokio Radio announced that fires raged in Tokio for more than seven hours following an attack…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.—A hangar housing two planes, one worth £1000 and the second £450. owned by Mr. J. H. Bowden former…
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A grass fire in Tocal-road. New Lambton, about 7 p.m. yesterday, was put out by New Lambton fire brigade…
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LONDON, April 18. A.A.P.—Although the German News Agency continues to admit Russian gains on the front opposite Berlin, the Soviet High Command is maintaining a complete security…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram On Fire After Collision With Motor Lorry
A TRUCK was extensively damaged and the undercarriage of a tram damaged by fire this morning when the two vehicles collided at the corner of Morgan and Hunter Streets, Newcastle. No one was injured. The truck was turning into Hunter Street. Newcastle Fire Brigade extinguished the fire…
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Two men were burned while recharging a chemical drier at the Commonwealth Oxygen Works yesterday…
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KATOOMBA, Sunday.âFire brigade experts from Sydney were called to Katoomba to help fight a fire which broke out under extraordinary…
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Ada Margaret Monaghan, 61. pensioner, was remanded until tomorrow on a charge of arson in West Maitland Police Court…
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ADELAIDE.— Damage estimated at £300,000 was caused by a fire which completely gutted the wool-scouring plant of G. H. Michell and Sons Ltd.,…
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Ada Margaret Monaghan, 61, pensioner, was committed for trial by the Coroner (Mr. E. C. Scarlett) following an Inquiry in Maitland…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—One of the biggest fires in the State for several years gutted the wool scouring factory of G. H. Mitchell and Sons Ltd., of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reds Hold Half Berlin Vast Fires Are Scourging City Hitler' H.Q. Shelled
LONDON, Wednesday: Moscow Radio announced last night that half of Berlin was in Russian hands. Marshal Zhukov has swept round to the west of…
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