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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 30
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Workers in Newcastle's industry, shops, offices and cinemas were advised last night to make themselves familiar with their own fire-fighting equipment and special exits on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brigades attended two small fires at the week-end. Belmont put out an area of burning scrub off Edith-street, Belmont, and Cook's Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out in the Waratah Deaf and Dumb Institute shortly before midnight last night. Sixty-four deaf and dumb girls asleep in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some of the children from the Waratah Deaf and Dumb Institute found refuge in the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Hinton, who live opposite the institute. They were photographed at 1.30 as they were settling down on improvised beds in the lounge room. There were more than 30 children in this room…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Warner's Bay resident has offered the Fire Department a speedboat to be used as a fire float in the Lake Macquarie area. He is Mr. L. G. Bell, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One officer and three men will be on duty at headquarters fire station, Cook's Hill, while firemen hold their stopwork meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many students of the Waratah Deaf and Dumb Institute, where two dormitories, a dressing room and the linen room were gutted by fire at midnight last night, had only the clothes they were wearing today. All the children are safe and well…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Fire officers and firemen, at separate meetings today, decided to strike immediately. Both officers and men agreed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Civilians helped three senior executive fire brigade officers to put out a fire in Graham's iron foundry, Newtown,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Left: Mrs. V. J. McGlyan, of Sydney, hugs her four-year-old daughter, Lorna, at Waratah Deaf and Dumb Institute yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. McGlynn came from Sydney by car yesterday to take home Lorna, who is the youngest child in the institute…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Managers of Newcastle business houses and theatres said today that every precaution was being taken against fire during the present firemen's strike. The manager of one leading store said that the store was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Striking fire brigade officers and men, at a meeting at Leichhardt Stadium this morning, decided to return to work immediately. Soon after the meeting had accepted the negotiating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Striking fire brigade officers and men throughout the State have resumed work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Any increase in the operational cost of the N.S.W. Fire Brigade Service should be borne by the insurance companies and not by the ratepayers of the State's municipalities and shires, said the Lord Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Aid. Quinlan) today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Fire destroyed drawing offices, with valuable drawings and plans, and threatened the shipbuilding engineering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The United Nations Security Council has ordered cease-fire in Palestine within three days. The vote was nine to one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ROME, Fri. (A.A.P.): Violence spread widely over Italy yesterday, with more shooting and the blowing up of railway lines. The army has assumed full powers in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.— The Bush Fires Advisory Committee has informed the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) that during next summer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RABAUL, July 18. A.A.P.—All stocks of motor spirit and 73 and 100 octane aviation petrol were destroyed, also a considerable…
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