BUSH FIRES
TOWNSHIP .MENACED. (Australian Press Association) MELBOURNE. Jan. IS. AYitli the old open cut of the ATallowrn Coal Aline a blazing inferon and hush fires advancing belli ml u lofty mile wind, the township of A'allowrn is in grave peril. Men, women and children are desperately lighting the flames. 'The homes of over a thousand |>oople are menaced. The settlement rests on flic top of the cut. 'The mine is now a blazing crater, flames shooting a hundred and fifty feet, in to the air. Four homes have been destroyed. A powder magazine blew up and since then trucks, winches, electrical equipment and coal and winding gear have been crashing into the cauldron of (lames. Extensive tires also occurred at Stradhroke. Eleven hundred acres of grassland were burnt out. 'Three hundred sheep perished. SYDNEY. Jan. 18. A Bombala message reports bush fires enclosed the town yesterday in the Delegate district. The whole of the. residents arc lighting the (lames, which arc raging in all directions. A well known grazier had five hundred sheep burned. The lire also raged at Buckley Springs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1929, Page 5
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182BUSH FIRES Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1929, Page 5
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