Bogus Fire Calls Worry Brigade
A series of bogus fire alarms is worrying officers at the Newcastle Fire Station and causing inconvenience to station…
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Fires & bushfires, 1948
585 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 30
£100,000 Fire Damage On Hobart Wharf
HOBART, Sunday.—Damage estimated at considerably more than £100,000 was caused by a fire which, at 10 o'clock to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Palestine Cease-Fire Request
NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): The Big Four today called on Jews and Arabs to state by tomorrow if they will enter a cease-fire pact. A meeting of the Security Council was postponed to give…
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Professor David's warning to coalmining authorities when they began mining in and around Cessnock has been ignored. If the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire-Damaged Ship Towed Back To Port
PERTH, Wednesday.—The story of how 35 officers and men of the American steamer, Cecil G. Sellers, abandoned ship when her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canadian Indians Fire Legal Arrow
OTTAWA: The Six-Nations Indians of the Grand River Reservation in Ontario, consistently rebuffed by the Canadian authorities in their 165-year fight for recognition as a separate State, have shot a new arrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fire Brigade Had Quiet Summer
Because of the wet summer and the absence of a protracted dry spell, fewer calls have been made on the Newcastle Fire Brigade to fight fires. For first three months of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cottages Destroyed In Woy Woy Fire
A fire which blazed for more than three hours in Paton-st., Woy Woy, yesterday, gutted two weatherboard cottages and damaged a third, causing an estimated loss of £2000…
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Inspector W. Dever, who took over charge of district fire brigades on Friday…
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Inspector W. Dever, who has succeeded Inspector J. Edge as chief of the Newcastle Fire Brigade Station, begins with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire May Cause Peg Shortage
HOBART, Wednesday.—As a result of a fire which destroyed most of the peg-making factory of the Pioneer Woodward Company at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prisoner Sets Fire To Cell
GOULBURN: In an attempt to burn his way out of Goulburn Police Station, Leonard Mundy, 35, was on the point of collapse when police dragged him out of the cell early this morning. Mundy was arrested…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Saved Mother's Home From Bushfire
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Encircled by flames and nearly blinded by smoke, Mrs. W. Driver, 30, saved her mother's home from a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sabotage Claim in Outbreaks of Fires
SYDNEY: A series of fires in country flour mills and city bulk stores bore the brand of deliberate sabotage, Mr. F. G. Cooke, of Mudgee, said at the Country Party Conference today…
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VANCOUVER, April 1.—The 12 members of the crew of the Australian freighter Wairuna narrowly escaped death in a fire on board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cotton Shortage May Be Acute After Fire
SYDNEY: Commonwealth officials said today that the cotton supply position in Australia had been seriously affected by the fire which last night destroyed more than £60.0,000 worth of raw cotton in a Customs store at. Waterloo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Sweeps Storehouse £600,000 Worth Of Cotton Lost
SYDNEY, Thursday.—More than 15,000 bales of cotton, valued at £600,000, were destroyed to-night when fire gutted the storehouse of the Commonwealth Trade and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Garbage Fires At Dump "Unavoidable"
Spontaneous combustion had occurred at the Greater Newcastle Council's garbage dump at Murdering Gully, Merewether, the City…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wounded Person Sought After Gunman Fires Shots Into House
SYDNEY: Police searched the East Sydney area for a wounded person and inquired at all hospitals after a gunman had fired three shots into the front of a house in a narrow lane at East Sydney early today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£23,000 Damage In Wool Fire
BRISBANE, Friday.—Damage estimated at £23,000 was caused by fire this morning in Knox & Sons wool scour, Belmont…
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