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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Fires & bushfires
740 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 37
SYDNEY: Near-gale westerly winds which yesterday started huge bushfires abated today saving vast and valuable north coast timber areas from destruction. CRICKET INCENTIVES: For the West Indies v New South Wales Country match today and tomorrow a Newcastle firm has offered a series of gifts for individual performances. Top scorer and best bowler on each side will receive a pair of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brigades attended six small bushfires in Newcastle district yesterday. They were at Catherine Hill Bay, North Belmont, Jesmond, New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A new bushfire outbreak near Kendall, on the North Coast, threatens more than 6000 acres of timber in Burrawan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Firemen from three brigades fighting to control a fire which broke out early this afternoon in the Palais Furnishing Company in Hunter-st. This picture was taken at the height of the blaze as flames swept through most of the building, completely destroying hundreds of pounds worth of furniture and threatened adjacent premises…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On their way to church on Sunday morning, two East End women paused at the former Newcastle East fire station and looked in through its broken side windows. Boards which had covered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY.—Bushfires, which raged for days over thousands of acres in N.S.W. and Queensland, were under control today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Fire Brigades was called to two scrub fires at the weekend. One was at Goodall Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: North-easterly winds gaining [?]elocity hourly again threaten to scatter sparks from still smouldering bushfires on to tinder-dry undergrowth along the North…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although fire brigades from Cook's Hill and Hamilton were quickly on the spot the Palais Furniture Company's store and offices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A fire caused about £10,000 damage when it destroyed a two-storey woollen factory in St. Kilda last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—Bushfires this year have partly burnt out at least 200 Queensland properties. This is revealed by a survey. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANNOT recall a summer passing in the past years without serious bushfires is some part of Australia. Why do scientists,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALBURY, Monday.—A man died in his blazing home at Lavington, near Albury, to-day, despite frenzied efforts by his daughter to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CAIRO, Oct. 29. A.A.P.—British troops fired on a car which attempted to crash its way through a military roadblock at Tel el Kebir at dusk yesterday. An Egyptian woman passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKYO, Oct. 29. A.A.P.—Chinese Communists, from ambush, deliberately wounded Allied soldiers, medical orderlies, and Korean refugees to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CINCINNATI (Ohio), Oct. 29. A.A.P.—Four persons were killed and 10 injured in a fire that gutted a tenement building yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY.—Serious shortages of meat and losses of cattle are expected to follow widespread grass fires which have devastated thousands of acres of grazing land in North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE, Wednesday.—A fire, believed to have been caused by lightning, destroyed a hayshed and feed store in the Coraki district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.): Despite apparent Communist concessions, many complex problems remained to be worked out before there would be a cease fire in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle district brigades attended 22 fires on Saturday, nearly all in bush and grass. There was no damage to…
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