BUSH FIRE RAGING
THOUSANDS OF ACRES DESTROYED. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Sydney, December 14. Defying 300 fire-fighters, a bush fire with a 50-mile front is raging through pastoral properties and threatening Cobar (New South Wales). The fire is travelling at the rate of 30 miles a day. It has already destroyed thousands of acres of grasslands Two stations of 150,000 and 200,000 acres have been burnt out. DESTRUCTIVE COURSE. FRONT EXTENDED TO 150 MILES. (Rec. 7.35 p.m.) Sydney, December 14. Rush and grass fires in western New South Wales continue their destructive course. Every man, woman and child able to assist is engaged fighting th" flames along a front of 150 miles. The wind this morning veered from west to south with the result that a wide stretch of country extending to Brewarrina is in danger. Pinchara and Curranylpa stations have been gutted.
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Southland Times, Issue 21577, 15 December 1931, Page 7
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