PERIL OF BUSH FIRES
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BLAZE HUNDREDS OF ACRES SWEPT. NATURALIST’S HOME RAZED. INVALID WIFE RESCUED. (United AK(a**o)flTl'*n - B y fVpvrieht..* Received 11.50 a.m. to-day. ADELAIDE, March 10. In one of the fiercest bush fires e-x / perieneed m the Blackwood and 'Eclair districts, the home of a well-known ornithologist and naturalist, Mr Edwin Ashby, was destroyed. Mr Ashby’s invalid wife was rescued from the burning house. Hundreds of acres of orchards and good country have been l devastated. Five hundred men were fighting the flames when a change of wind saved the whole countryside from being swept.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 March 1934, Page 5
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98PERIL OF BUSH FIRES Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 March 1934, Page 5
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