DROUGHT IN BRITAIN
<*■ j SERIOUS FUSES CONTINUE, | BLAZE AT WORTHING PIER. (United Press Association—By Electna Copyright.) LONDON, Sept. 11. Serious fires accompany the continuance of the- drought. While hundreds were parading at Worthing Pier it suddenly caught fire, destroying the £3O,OCX) pavilion. Some of England’s famous beautj spots have betm devastated. Seventy Air Force men helped to fight a fire at Epping Forest. Soldiers wearing gas masks and steel helmets fmight a vast heath fire on the Surrey Commons, which invaded the greens and fairways of the Sunningdale- golf course. Broadcasting from Brookman Park was suspended for an hour while the staff fought the onrushing flames from heath fires. Rugby football matches were abandoned owing to tlie hardness of the grounds, and steeplechasing also was affected. The milk supply is decreasing and vegetables are scarce.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 12 September 1933, Page 5
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