HAVOC OF BUSH FIRES.
.AFFECTING- NORTHERN DISTRICTS OF N.S.W.
A DEATH FROM HEAT
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Dav, 10.45 a.m.) NEWCASTLE, This Day.
With a recurrence of hot weather, bush fires are raging from Gosford up to the North Coast, and much damage has been done. Two houses were destroyed at Belmont and five at Tarcoma, whore the residents fought all day to preserve their homes. The fires are responsible for terrific heat throughout the Northern District, .and at least one death has resulted. Thomas j Cook, aged li>, collapsed and : died at Kearsley. The bush fires threaten to destroy rthe 'Gosford racecourse.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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