BUSH FIRES
GREAT DAMAGE,
IN NEW SOUTH WALTS
f Australian Press Association )
(Received this day at 10,45 a.m.) ■SYDNEY, December 14
Bushfires destroyed over thirty thousand acres of grass land in Riverina. Ther e was a serious outbreak near Oaklands, which swept seventeen thousand acres, and destroyed a larg© number of sheep, razed fencing and cut off homesteads, before it wa s subdued by two hundred firefighters. Spreading to the railway line the fire ignited the sleepers and forced a train from Urana to Oaklands to turn back. .Smaller Outbreaks occurred in other centres, sheep and cattl© perishing.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1932, Page 5
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