SERIOUS DAMAGE
DONE BV BUSH FIRES IN VICTORIA WORST SINCE 1939 HOSPITALS & OTHER BUILDINGS DESTROYED. THOUSANDS OF ANIMALS BURNED TO DEATH. ißv TelCfirnpli—Press Associtibon Copyi lr,hlj (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. More than forty houses, public hospitals and hotels were, destroyed at the weekend in one of the most serious outbreaks of bush fires in Victoria since 1939. Hundreds of miles of forests, grassland and fencing have been destroyed and thousands of animals have been burned to death, but only one man has been reported seriously injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1944, Page 2
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