TOWNSHIP MENACED
FIRE-BUG SUSPECTED BLAZING BUSH PERIL MELBOURNE, Jan. 27. Five fires which menaced tiie township of Lome were seen by observers in a patrolling plane to have been deliberately lighted Ait observers spotted the first fire and brigades and volunteers turned out. Four other fires were seen to start at half-mile intervals. They advanced a mile and a half towards Lome before they were brought under control.
Manv other bush fires occurred in Victoria during the week-end. but none assumed dangerous proportions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22240, 28 January 1947, Page 3
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83TOWNSHIP MENACED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22240, 28 January 1947, Page 3
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