BUSH FIRE MENACE.
TWENTY-MILE FRONT. WIND FAVORS FIRE FIGHTERS. SYDNEY, .Tan. 29. The bush fire menacing the Federal capital has again broken out. It now' lias a twenty mile front and the Federal capital is covered with a thick pall of smoke and the workers are lying exhausted on the roadside after an all-night fight. So far their efforts have prevented the flames from up-; proneliitig the pine plantations, as tho wind is against, the advance of the * tire. PRACTICALLY UNDER. CONTROL. - ;' N . - " -/"'M (Received January’3o, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, January 30; , The hush fires in the Cotter River district are the worst for twenty years. Fears are entertained for the safety of the observatory and pine plantations at Mount Strombo, in the Jingcllic district, near Albury. The fire is raging fiercely along a fifteen-mile front in the Bathurst, district, and 60 square miles of grass and fencing have been destroyed. Several buildings and homesteads had close calls.
The fire is now practically under control, and there is little loss of stock so far reported.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16946, 30 January 1926, Page 7
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174BUSH FIRE MENACE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16946, 30 January 1926, Page 7
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