BUSH FIRES OCCUR
OUTBREAKS NEAR ROTOMA
HEAVY PALL OF SMOKE A heavy’pall of smoke cloaked the western Rangitaiki Plains and the hills-, around- Lake Rotoma over the weekend, when a number of fires broke out simultaneously in the direction of Tarawera. Smaller fireson the east of the Rotoma hills and at Manawahe added to the dense smoke, which however had cleared by this morning, when, the fires were either bumf out or had died down on reaching the heavier bush.
The greatest blaze appeared to bewell inland from Onepu where it swept up the scrub-covered 'hill country and was only halted obl reaching the heavy standing forest south of Latte Rotoma where for a period residents and holidaymakers had an anxious time fearing that the dr 3’ weather might be the means of setting, all the surrounding bush alight. Once again the local authorities issue the gravest warning regarding the starting of a fire in any open country where it is likely to get out of control. Farmers whose properties adjoin bush county- are partienjoined to exercise. the greatest care. \
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 41, 5 February 1946, Page 5
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180BUSH FIRES OCCUR Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 41, 5 February 1946, Page 5
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