GORSE FIRE THREATENED RADIO INSTALLATIONS.
Press Association)
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WELLINGTON, Jan. 20. Casting a pall of smoke over the business area of Wellington, an extensive gorse and grass fire on the Wadestown side of the Tinakori hills, for a time threatened the Post and Telegraph Departnient radio mstallations on*4he top of the hills this afternoon. Firebreaks about six feet wide which sur+ Tound the area on which the radio sta tion is situated were jumped by the flames on the northern side. When a party of flredighters from the department arrived about 3.20 p.m., the flre had erept up close to the guv wires of the mast at the northern end of the station. These men, later helped by a crew from the Northland fire station. had a strenuous job" controlling the flre, hampered by clouds of dense smoke, The flre was under control by 6,30 p.m. ' |
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 January 1948, Page 5
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