AUSTRALIAN MILITARY STORES BURNED
SYDNEY, December 28. Army stores and equipment valued at about £lOO,OOO were destroyed when a wooden building in the grounds of the drill hall at Wagga was burned.
The building formed part of a gunpark at the Wagga military headquarters. Seven new vehicles were lest, including two armoured cars. Firemen almost had the blaze under control several times, but a strong westerly wind aided the flames. Troops and civilians helped to roll drums of getrol and oil from the blazing build-
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25998, 29 December 1949, Page 5
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