MAMAKU BUSH ABLAZE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 4

MAMAKU BUSH ABLAZE.

FIRES IN TOE DOMAIN.

mam has been and still is, in jeopard and at any time a carelessly * thS match may start a fire which wiU d?stroy the beauty of the slopes of the area. Four men are now patrolW the the lookout for outbreaks. No less than four were discovered yesterday and were cheeked by the City Fire Brigade, which was called upon on each occasion only slight damage being-done. Two broke out before eight o'clock this morning, but were quickly extinguished For a week the bush on the Maraaku hills has been ablaze at various points the area from JSfainaku to .Arahiwi being devastated. A number of clearinm were swept,and the Arahiwi Timber Company's Tnmrn ■,» asAvod wvarely, « number of

their tramways behiff destrmwi others are etUl burning. A ~-jjJ!t? amount of timber was was only after a hard battle tiat mill and cottages were • eavedL* Si Mountain tw of its three tramxravs dettern?* and Roe's and the Maraeroa had a considerable length of tramwa**? stroyed. ' About eight miles: of tafli fencing was destroyed, and at ArtfciiHi large tree fell across the track. Poj*t hately. it was noticed, and removed befon the express- came along, quences might been eeriou»i'for ji was impossible to see more the a yards ahead owing to ; the deue waoka.