SULTRY SYDNEV.
HUNDRED DEGREE HEAT WAVE. SCRUB FIRES THREATEN HOMES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Jan. 30. Heat was hence again throughout New South Wales to-day. The maximum; temperature at Sydney at one o'clock was. 100 degrees. It was. appreciably hotter inland. Everything has, been dried up and vegetables are very scarce. Farmers and oastcra.ists are becoming alarmed owing to the shortage of fodder and water. Householders in O’Connell Street, Hurstvilile, a suburb, to-day had an exciting time. Forty homes were threatened with destruction by a fire which commenced in adjoining scrub, ignited several verandahs and! travelled with amazing rapidity. The occupants evacuated every house. Police and firemen by herculean efforts, saved them and removed a bed-ridden (pensioner whose home was totally destroyed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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