SCRUB FIRE.
ENVELOPS MAIL CAR. PASSENGERS' LUCKY ESCAPE. NELSON, This Day. A mail car from Westport to Nelson was burned at Spooner's Range late yesterday afternoon. A scrub fire in ;i gully quickly ran up the hillside, blocking the car's progress and cutting off its retreat. The flames swept across the road and caught the car, which, with seven mail bags hung on tho windward side, was destroyed. Fortunately there was a small patch on the roadside that had been previously burned, and there the passengers, numbering 16, escaped the flames. But for this the consequences would have been most serious.—Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 27 February 1924, Page 8
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102SCRUB FIRE. Northern Advocate, 27 February 1924, Page 8
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