Fires caused devastation in Victoria. Australia has- been in the throes of a heat wave and drought the length and intensity of which. lias not been experienced for about 35 years. Temperatures have ranged well over the century mark for days and weeks on end, and bush fires prevalent in south and astern Victoria, have laid waste vast areas in these districts. The raging flames have swept through virgin and cultivated forests; timber mills and homes have been razed, rendering hundreds of people homeless, and resulting in the deaths of a score of people with many missing. The monetary damage is incalculable.—A home at Healesville being destroyed by fire with some furniture slacked out of reach of-the flames.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1939, Page 12
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118Fires caused devastation in Victoria. Australia has- been in the throes of a heat wave and drought the length and intensity of which. lias not been experienced for about 35 years. Temperatures have ranged well over the century mark for days and weeks on end, and bush fires prevalent in south and astern Victoria, have laid waste vast areas in these districts. The raging flames have swept through virgin and cultivated forests; timber mills and homes have been razed, rendering hundreds of people homeless, and resulting in the deaths of a score of people with many missing. The monetary damage is incalculable.—A home at Healesville being destroyed by fire with some furniture slacked out of reach of-the flames. Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1939, Page 12
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