N.S.W. BUSH FIRE
A FRESH OUTBREAK. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, 'December 10. Over two hundred men who have been fighting the bush fires in Western New South Wales for the last six day, had their first respite today, when the flames of three sections were got under control. Scarcely had the men returned to the towns, however, when a fresh outbreak occurred, one hundred mikes from Cobar. A detachment immediately left by lorry. Three men escaped at Innesowen by rsuhing into a sheepyard and dragging a tarpaulin over themselves while the flames swept over them. Thousands of acres of valuable grass country have been reduced to a charred mass or grass tufts, and smouldering trees and fences,
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1931, Page 5
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117N.S.W. BUSH FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1931, Page 5
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