BUSH FIRES RACE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11832, 13 January 1933, Page 2

BUSH FIRES RACE

HEAVY DAMAGE IN N.S.W

HOMES DESTROYED AND COLLIERIES MENACED.

STATE. SWELTERS UNDER

HEAT WAVE

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Busli fires are raging in many districts'as a result of lieat-waVO conditions.

At Fassiferii, on the main railway line, from Sydney to Newcastle, a ser•ipus. outbreak destroyed the railway station building and several adjacent .dwellings. arid-delayed tile North Coast arid Newcastle mail trains for (three hours. The passengers bad a terrifying experience. Extensive damage .was done to other Newcastle suburbs.

.Nino homes were destroyed in Toronto, Wallseiicl, and 'Cardiff, while at Dudley the Presbyterian Church, an hotel,, and stables were/gutted. Several collieries Wore menaced, but, the fi'rc-fightors managed to beat buck 'the'‘flames id

The destruction of the telephone and telegraph line by fire cut many north towns off from Sydney. The temperature in the 'Newcastle district yesterday reached 110 degrees.. • An extensive fire is now raging oil both sides of the roadway at Mount Victoria Pass in the Blue Mountains. Sweeping .downhill, the fire ate up hundreds of acres of scrub. ' At Woywoy the residents-, wore almiost overcome ’by blinding smoke, and wore forced to seek shelter on the beach. A number of women fainted In the west and Riverina districts many acres of grass land, and in several instances crops and haystacks, have been destroyed. . , Numerous outbreaks occurred in the metropolitan area.