N.W.S. HEAT WAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1936, Page 1

N.W.S. HEAT WAVE

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES OCCUR

(Australian Press Association.)

SYPNEY, November fi

Heat wave conditions prevail, in New South Wales, with destructive fires along the coastline. The temperature in the city in the last two days has been nearly 100 degrees. So thick is the smoke haze on the coast that visibility outside the port is less than a mile. i

Extensive fires in the 1)1 up Mountains have already destroyed many homes, and considerable mileage of fencing, and 100- people are engaged in fire fighting.

’The main highway over the' Blue Mountains became impassable near Glenbrook and Springwood owing to the ferocity and extent of the fires and the density of the smoke.

Fifteen homes were destroyed in the mountain foothills. A hundred police were sent from Sydney to-nicht to assist in fighting the fl’ines, wli eh are raging on a 39 miles’ 'front between Glenbrook and Kurraj'%g.