HEAT & FIRES
SERIOUS DAMAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES
HEAVY LOSS AT COLLIERY PITHEAD.
WHEAT & GRASS ARRAS SWEPT.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. Hundreds of firemen and volunteers worked throughout the weekend fighting serious bush fires in the country and the outer suburbs of Sydney. Damage estimated at .C 20,000 was caused by fire at the pithead of Glebe Colliery, near Newcastle. Fires in the outlying districts of Lithgow arc described as the worst in living memory. Thirty thousand acres of grass and wheat land were destroyed by a big bush fire near Wagga. The heat wave reached 103 degrees in Sydney yesterday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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108HEAT & FIRES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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