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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
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A fire which started in a salvage depot near Hamilton railway yards last night destroyed a foundry owned by Henry Lane Pty. Ltd. Only the shell of the glavanised iron building was left standing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle and Lake District fire-brigades were called to 429 fires during 1945. The last was late last night. In 1944 they were called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOBART, Monday.—Three more sawmills were destroyed in the Denison Valley, Huon district, when bushfires flared up again…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In view of the dry conditions throughout the State, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) to-day issued a warning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WAGGA, Wednesday.—Ten thousand acres of country in the Tumbarumba district were swept by a [?]ushfire which raged since midday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Neighbours awakened occupants of a block of three weatherboard flats at Springwood wood just in time for them to escape…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The State Forest at West Pennant Hills, where the famous Koala Park is situated, and Hammondville, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire in scrub and grass swept a big area off Wilkinson-avenue, Birmingham Gardens, yesterday. Wallsend Fire Brigade used two lines of hose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: Worst country outbreak of bushfires is in the Werris Creek district, 40 miles from the town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This afternoon Newcastle and District Fire Brigade officials expressed surprise that they had not been called repeatedly to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WOLLONGONG, Sunday.—The School of Arts at Corrimal and contents were destroyed by five yesterday afternoon. The damage is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The careless discarding of burning cigarette butts and matches by tram passengers is blamed by the captain of Wallsend Fire Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Sweeping through 60,000 acres of grassland bushfires, which began at Spring Ridge on Friday and were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE: Bushfires are threatening the whole of Eraser Island (off Maryborough), and its hardwood forests, which are the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cook's Hill Brigade attended a fire in dry grass on the sloping embankment near Fort Scratchley last night. It was put out before doing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Monday.—A bushfire is threatening one of Queensland's most valuable hardwood forests, on Fraser Island, off the coast at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A grass fire off Kotara-road. Adamstown, last night, war put out by Adamstown brigade. There was no damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CHUNGKING, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—Chinese Press reports predicted that a cease fire order would be issued by both the Government and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KALGOORLIE.—Underground work in the Lake View and Star mines, and a large portion of the Great Boulder Mine has ceased as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fanned by a strong north-easterly wind, a fire gained a strong hold on 200 acres of bushland at Dobroyd Point, near…
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