DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES.
5 SWEEP CANADIAN COAST. ? (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ■ • i- (Received 1.30 p.m.) ■j VANCOUVER, July 7. Wind last night fanned bush fires , along the British Columbia coast caused ; by a week's drought, and resulted in the j burning of a number of small settlements, summer resorts and fishing villages, including a returned soldier settlement at Merville, Vancouver Island, where fifty families are homeless. The . loss of standing timber in the province is . already £200,000. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 160, 8 July 1922, Page 5
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