BIG BUSH FIRES
grass and goods lost in VICTORIA I'nitcd FA — B 'J Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, Today. \ forest fire in the Snowy River district near Orbost has assumed alarming proportions. It crossed the river and destroyed stocks of railway sleepers and a cutter's plant, and also , large area of grass. Serious bush fires threaten the grass in the Mount Wellington district. A farmer named Hayward went out to fight the bush blaze m the Black Ranges, near Stawell. and when he returned be found his six-roomed house burned. The Are is believed to be due to beeswax left melting on the stove boiling over.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 888, 4 February 1930, Page 11
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103BIG BUSH FIRES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 888, 4 February 1930, Page 11
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