SERIOUS BUSH FIRES
OUTBREAKS IN AUSTRALIA WORST IN LIVING MEMORY HUGE DAMAGE TO CROPS (United Prcss Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 12. 3.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 12 Hundreds of firemen and volunteers worked throughout the weekend fighting serious bush fires in the country and outer suburbs of Sydney. Damage estimated at £20.000 was caused by a fire at the pithead of the Glebe Colliery, near Newcastle. The fires in the outlying districts of Lithgow are described as the worst in living memory. Thirty thousand acres of grass and wheat land was destroyed by a big bushfire near Wagga. The heat wave reached 103 degrees in Sydney yesterday.
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21036, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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