AUSTRALIAN BUSH FIRES
WORST FOR TWENTY YEARS.
PRACTICALLY UNDER CONTROL,
Received January 30, 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY, January 30
The bush fires in the Cotter River district are the worst for twenty years. Fears are entertained for the safety of the observatory and pine plantations at Mount Stromlo. In the Jingellic district, near Albury, a fire is raging fiercely along a fifteen-mile front. In the Bathurst district 60 square miles of grass and fencing were destroyed, and several buildings and homesteads had close calls. - The fire is now practically under control. There has been little,loss of \Stfick SJft *"; XAnastJ&n..
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 5
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