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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 30
CHRISTCHURCH, Tues. (A.A.P.): A floor superintendent told some employees of Ballantyne's Department Store to return to work after the disastrous fire, which killed 41 people in the building, had been discovered, according to counsel at the Royal Commission today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE.—Men fighting a bushfire in the Terowie district had Just brought the fire under control when they received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Jan. 27. A.A.P.—Prompt action saved the famous Royal Air Force navigation aircraft, Aries II., from destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—Mr. C. G. Watson, who is presenting the Crown case to the Royal Commission inquiring into the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Jan. 27.—The latest housing shortage story has two sets of victims—a family of nine whose home, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Townships on the west coast of Tasmania were yesterday in danger of being overwhelmed by bush and forest fires. Several fires were raging in the vicinity of Zeehan and smoke from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE.-The fire protection officer of the Forest Commission (Mr. A. O. Lawrence) said at midday today no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.)—Six hundred crippled patients in a Shropshire orthopaedic hospital were wheeled into pouring rain when fire destroyed the main hospital block yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—At the resumed hearing by the Royal Commission inquiring into the fire that destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire in a small heap of rubbish at Watkins-street, Merewether, was put out by Newcastle District Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A period of high temperatures or low humidities could result in a serious fire danger in many parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—A furrier, whose shop yas gutted by fire, refused to disclose at the city Coroner's Court today the names of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sanction given by the Palestine Commission of the United Nations for the organisation of a Jewish militia is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Jan, 30. A.A.P.—An undetermined number, of guests were killed when a fire destroyed the 75-room Jesse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.— The City Coroner (Mr. J. S. Hart) said his verdict was "unsatisfactory" when he was unable to determine whether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. R. Barry, his wife and five of their children with Mrs. Barry, senr., in the Newcastle East Fire Station, where they have been squatting since their eviction from a Mayfield house last Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Government employee, with his aged mother, wife and six young children, has been ordered to leave the old Newcastle East fire station in Scott-st. because the Housing Commission wants the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HONGKONG, Feb. 1.—Twenty-six Chinese passengers are believed to be dead, and 15 have been taken to hospital as the result of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Board of Fire Commissioners informed Lower Hunter Shire Council this morning that three 100ft. lengths of hose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Norman Marshall, 16, of Gould-street, Bondi, was injured this afternoon when his motor-cycle and a truck…
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