PRISONERS STOP BUSH FIRE
SETTLEMENT SAVED IN N.S.W. FLAMES ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT* By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Sydney, Feb. 14. Prisoners from an afforestation camp helped to save the setlement of Mannus in the Albury district from destruction by bush fires. The fire at one stage was advancing on a 12-mile front ■ .The prisoners stood' in a line and, with wet bags, stopped'the’ffames. ’ Residents say’that Maiihus would have been wiped out but for the efforts of the prisoners. . • ,'
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1933, Page 9
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