BUSH FIRES
FAMILIES HOMELESS FURNITURE STREWS SEA FRONT FOR TWO MILES. PLIGHT OF LADIES BATHING. By Telctrapli—Press Association. —Copyright (Received December 24, 10.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, December 24. Tho bush fires around Aspendale and Chelsea have rendered many families homeless. Many lost the whole of their belongings. Others, more lucky, carried their household goods to the seafront. The sands are strewn for a distance of two miles with furniture of nil descriptions, from pianos and beds downwards, and with fowls and other live stock. The fires spread so rapidly that the retreat of thirty ladies who were bathing was cut off, and they were obliged to remain on the bench in scant bathing costumes, homeless and tcaless, until a consignment of gentlemen’s overcoats was requisitioned from the township.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8613, 26 December 1913, Page 5
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