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"The flames gutted the picturesque hamlet of Narbethong. Only the hotel remained standing."
The Age

Volunteers WANTED
11 January 1939

Unless the weather changed overnight, volunteers with knowledge of the bush would be urgently needed to-day, said the Chairman of the Forests Commission (Mr A V Galbraith) last night

[A, 11/1/39]

Township Gutted – Narbethong ablaze
11 January 1939

The whole of the country from the top of the Black’s Spur to Buxton and Alexandra was a blazing inferno yesterday. The flames, fanned by the raging northerly wind, gutted the picturesque hamlet of Narbethong, and in the worst bush fire in its history only the hotel remained standing.

[A, 11/1/39]

 
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