BUSH -FIRES IN THE NORTH-
EXCITING EXPERIENCES. (SFECIAT. TO "THK PiIESS.") ' GISBORNE, January SO. There arrived in town to-day a score or more bushmen who wero , driven from their camps by bush fires. Four gangs were at work on Mr J. Clark's Waipaoa station, -felling 2000 acres. Some sections wore just about cut out, and good progress had been mado on others. On Wednesday a neighbouring bush firo overrun its limits and got into Mr Clark's bush. The fallen portion was soon burning fiercely, and the firo spread into the standing bush. The alarm was given, and tho bushmen. buriod their belongings and gear and boat a iasty retreat. Two gangs had a particularly trying experience. They wero carrying threo dogs which had their feet scorched by tho red hot embers, and had to travel fast to get away from tho firo, which followed hard in their wake. To get clear thoy had to scale a steep face, only to find on reaching the summit that thoy were up against another fire —another burn on Mr Buscko's property. However, they succeeded in making their escape.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14889, 31 January 1914, Page 3
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