FIERCE HEAT
NEW: SOUTH WALES'S EXPERIENCE TOWN AND COUNTRY SUFFER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, January 25. (Received January 25, at 11 a.m.) New South Wales received the full force of the heat wave yesterday, the maximum reading at Sydney being 103.4 deg, while the country towns recorded up to 112 deg. Two men died in the metropolis from heat, and many were treated in the hospitals and at ambulance stations. Bush fires broke out in nearly every suburb, where there was bush or long grass. The fire brigades had a particularly strenuous day. Men, women,-’ and children fought for hours at Penshurst to save their homes from the flames. Eden, on the south coast, was surrounded by fires last night. Motorists on Princes Highway were driven back by blazing timbers.
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Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 8
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130FIERCE HEAT Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 8
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