PLANTATIONS SWEPT
DAMAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA The Cape Peninsula, Cape Town, has experienced one of the worst summers on record for bush fires, which have devastated many square miles of plantations and indigenous growth on the mountain slopes. One fire, which lasted 20 hours, swept along the Constantiaberg and destroyed thousands of valuable fully-grown trees in the Government plantations. A violent southeaster added to the difficulties of the 500 beaters engaged in trying to keep the fire under control. On the Camps Bay side of the peninsula a bush fire spread to with a few feet of the bungalows fringing the beaches.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 3
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102PLANTATIONS SWEPT Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1938, Page 3
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