AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
BIG BUSH FIRES. MELBOURNE, February 4. A forest fire in Snowy River district, near Orbost, assumed alarming proportions. It crossed the river and destroyed stocks of railway sleepers and cutters’ plant, also a large area of grass. Serious bush fires threaten the grass in the Mt Wellington district. A farmer named Hayward went out to fight the bush blaze in the Black Range-s near Stawell. When he returned he found his six-roomed house burned. It is believed the fire was due to beeswax left melting on the stove, 'boiling over.
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Grey River Argus, 5 February 1930, Page 5
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