HIGH TEMPERATURES

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3930, 13 January 1933, Page 6

HIGH TEMPERATURES

Heat Wave in Australia RUSH FIRES RAGING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE l>V ‘LDINGS DESTROYED IN COALFIELDS AREA • (Augt. and N.Z. Cable.) Sydney, January 12. Rush file, are raging in many dis--•iels :\.i the result of the heat wave. The eruditions at Fassifcrn, on the main railway line from Sydney to Newcastle, tire serious. An outbreak •lest»'t d tlie railway, station buildings aid several adjacent dwellings a,ita debit eff . tb,, north coast, and Newcastle mail trains f<:(- tliree hours. The pnsfci’tiers had a terrifying existence Extensive, damage was done in tl-,-> Nc-wiautle suburbs. Nino homes wore destroyed at, Toronitt We I bend and Ca.rdiff, while at T*udlty the [Presbyterian church, and hotel and stables were gutted. Several collieries were menaced, lnif the firefighters managed io beat back th i Unifies. The .Is 1 ruction of tlie ti-V[ vlu.no and ttlegraph lines »y fire cut many port t towte off’ from Sydney. A HOT TTME The tonipoiattire in the Newcastle district tester-day reached 110 degi eesAn extenive fire is now raging Oil both sides of file roadway in tlie Mount Victoria Past; on the Blue Mountains Sweeping downhill, the fire ato up hundt'i'.s of acres of scrub at Woy Way. The residents were almost overcome by the blinding smoke and were forced to seek shelter on Ihe beach. A number ci women fainted Li tile west and Riverina districts iu.itiv acres of -grassland rtitd in several instances crops and haystacks have- been dot roved. Numerous outbreaks occurred in the metropolitan area.