Three hundred refugees from Woods Point, most of them destitute, have been accommodated at Seymour Miliatary Camp, to which they were transported by special trains and motor convoys.

During the height of the fires on Friday scenes reminiscent of behind the lines at the war were seen. Red Cross supplies and necessaries for the victims being rushed to the danger spots, and thousands of fire-fighters transported from the nearest depots.

Abandoning their belongings in a race for life, when fire struck Matlock, 500 men, women and children crowded into a Goulburn River water tunnel at Woods Point. The hospital was the first building struck by the flames.

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