BUSH FIRES
MILL AND HOUSES DESTROYED IN VICTORIA SOME SERIOUS OUTBREAKS FOLLOWING ON DRY SEASON. MELBOURNE, October 4. Owing to the dryness of the season bush fires have begun early in Victoria this year and th.ere were three serious outbreaks today. At Moe, in the Gippsland district, 100 miles from Melbourne, a sawmill and several houses were burnt out, the damage being £3OOO. Several persons narrowly escaped with their lives. Dandenong Ranges, 30 miles from Melbourne, was the scene of a large fire which destroyed one house. Desperate work by fire-fighters saved the church and many other houses. The third outbreak was at Beaufort, 150 miles from Melbourne, where there was a heavy loss of timber and fencing. All the fires are still burning fanned by a strong northerly wind.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1938, Page 7
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130BUSH FIRES Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1938, Page 7
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