FIRES MENACE CANBERRA

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6747, 4 January 1932, Page 7

FIRES MENACE CANBERRA

Fortunate Change of Wind

RAIN HEEDED TO SAVE SITUATION United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SYDNEY, Jan. 2. Bush fires are still menacing many stations and homesteads in the south and west of New South Wales. Hopes rest now in the possibility of rain. The fires for a time threatened tho Federal capital. The whole of Canberra’s fire-fighting facilities were employed to av rece gtth xzfiflffffi flifli ployed to avert the danger, and, with a fortunate change in the wind, the anxiety was allayed late yesterday. Desperate Plight of Settlers Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 3. The back country is in dire need of rain. Many of the fire-swept areas of the Cobar district comprise flame and smoke-covered expanses an oasis On which the people and stock are crowded for relief, while hundreds of men are fighting a grim battle against the insistent fires. Only rain, and that soon, can save many peoplo from ruin