MORE BUSH FIRES
NUMBER OF OUTBREAKS IN VICTORIA FIGHT ON WIDE FRONT. NORTH WINDS AND HIGH TEMPERATURES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE. February 13. With a return of north winds and high temperatures more bush fires sprang up in Victoria today at several points. The Black Forest, near Woodend, is ablaze on a 12-mile front and is being fought by 300 men. Three houses were destroyed and others are endangered. Another fire near Marysville threatened a mill before fire-fighters diverted it toward already burnt out country. Marysville township is safe. The Tallarook Rangers are burning on a 10-mile front, but no townships are in danger. Farmers are moving them stock to safety. The present fires are not likely to gain the magnitude of those last month, however, because of breaks formed by previously burnt out country. Temperatures in the city today reach 106.5 degrees and up to 110 degrees were reached in the country. The city is shrouded in bush fire smoke.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 5
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