FIRE DISASTER
IN VICTORIAN BROWN COAL WORKS CAUSED BY SCRUB BURN ON FARM AT SOME DISTANCE (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. The cause of the disastrous Yallourn fire which last month was responsible for extensive damage to the Victorian State Electricity Commission’s open cut at.a b*FE>&n coal mine and adjoining works, was the lighting of a fire by a farmer, for the purpose of dead scrub. This is disclosed in a report by Judge Streetton, who sat as a Royal Commission to investigaate the fire. Shortly before the fire the farmer had received what he believed to be proper permission to burn. The fire had spread through timbered country which lay between the farm and Yallourn.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1944, Page 4
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