CARELESSNESS—AND THE FIRE DANGER.
The scrub and flax fire which raged beyond Thornton for the better part of last week is yet another illustration of the carelessness of persons who leave unprotected fires, in the vicinity of inflammable native growth. Six hundred acres of flax lands have been swept, destroying apart from the valuable flax products, the rare native wild life, which is threatened with certain extinction unless it qan be protected from this a,nd similar visitations.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 72, 9 October 1939, Page 4
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77CARELESSNESS—AND THE FIRE DANGER. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 72, 9 October 1939, Page 4
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