FOREST FIRES.
HEAVY REPORTED. (United Press Association—By Electrlo Tel egraph—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, February 4. A forest fire in the Snowy River district, near Orbcet, assumed alarming proportions. It crossed the river, destroyed stocks of railway sleepers and the cutters’ plant, and also a large area of grass. Serious bush fires threaten grass in the Mount Wellington district. A farmer named Hayward went out to fight a bush blaze in the Black Ranges, near Stawell. When he returned he found his six roomed house burned, believed to be be due to beeswax left melting on the stove boiling over.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18491, 5 February 1930, Page 9
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97FOREST FIRES. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18491, 5 February 1930, Page 9
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