BUSH FIRES
NOW RAGING AFRESH. WINDS INCREASE THE DANGER. VICTORIAN TIMBER LOSSES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11.35 a.m. to-day. MELBOURNE, March 4. On Mount Plenty and in the surrounding districts gangs of fighters are still battling against bush fires. The danger grows hourly. A strong northerly wind has materially increased the gravity of the situation on Mount Plenty. Close on £1,000,000 worth of mountain ash has been destroyed, and a plantation of pine trees valued at £l,000,000 is almost in the direct track of the fire. The phosphate works are in danger, and strenuous efforts are being made to move them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 March 1926, Page 5
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101BUSH FIRES Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 March 1926, Page 5
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