BUSH FIRES RAGING
SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND FARM CROPS DESTROYED (Rec. 7 p.m.) BRISBANE, Aug. 15. Bush flres are raging over a big area of Southern Queensland, menacing homesteads, station property, stock, and army buildings, and destroying the last remains of winter fodder. Thousands of acres of grasslands have been burnt out and some farm crops destroyed. Women and girls clad in pyjamas last night helped to fight a grass Are in a Brisbane suburb which threatened their homes. The . flres, the most extensive and the worst for more than 40 years, are due to the phenomenally dry period. A fleet of 30 lorries which has moved day and night in the past few weeks has transported 140,000 sheep to relief country from the drought-stricken Burke-Cobar area. With insufficient railway trucks either to bring fodder or shift stock, graziers in north-west New South Wales have organised a road plan to avert disastrous stock losses. The drought is referred to as the worst in 40 years, and 5,000.000 sheep are threatened with death by starvation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26232, 16 August 1946, Page 7
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