DAMAGE BY BUSH FIRES
SERIOUS CONDITIONS IN NEW SOUTH WALES MEAT WAVE REACHES 103 DEGREES IN SYDNEY £>reM Association—By Telegraph—Copy right SYDNEY, February 12. Hundreds of firemen and volunteers worked throughout the weekend fighting serious bush fires in the country and outer suburbs of Sydney. Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused by a fire at a pithead of the Glebe colliery near Newcastle. Fires in the outlying districts of Lithgow are 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 deg in Sydney yesterday.
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Evening Star, Issue 23498, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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104DAMAGE BY BUSH FIRES Evening Star, Issue 23498, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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