N.S.W. BUSH FIRE
40,000 ACRES BURNT.
NOW RAGED FOR FIVE DAYS.
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY. December 15
The hush fires which are raging over the far western plains have assumed more alarming proportions.
A fresh .fire, with a fifteen miles front, has broken out twenty miles from tbe main outbreak, and it i» feared that the two will merge. It is estimated that an area of four biuidfod thousand acres hoa “Irmuly been burnt, and that hundreds of miles of fencing has been destroyed, The heaters have been fighting the blaze for five days, and the fact that they have hot returned to the towns is significant of the seriousness of the position. * The station homesteads are mostly built on raised, ridgy country as a safeguard against fires. This may prove to be the salvation.
Stock is being rushed front one point to another as the fire veers and shifts.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1931, Page 5
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