PUSH FIRES IN POVERTY BAY.
EXCITING EXPERIENCES. There arrived in Gisborne.on'Friday a score'or more bushmen who .were driven from their camps by bush fires. Four, gangs were at work on Mr: J: Clark's-Waipaoa station, felling .2000 ,• acre's. .Somo sections were just about , cut out, and!good progress:. had been made l on oilers. On- Wednesday " a neighbouring bush fire overran its' limite and got into, Mr. Clark's bush., The •fallen portion was soon burning fiercely, and the fire spread into the standing bUsh. Tho alarm was given and the • bushmen buried , their belongings arid ', . geiir and beat a hasty, retfea t. :,; : Two gangs - particularly trying " experience. ■■' They» were-' carfying three dogs which had their feet scorched by • •■■yie red hot embers, and" had 'to 'travel fast'to get away from the,fire, which . . followed hard ir. their wake. To got clear they had to scale a steep face, only to find on'■reac'liing the summit that they were up 'against''another firo —another bum on Mr. Buscke's property. However, they succeeded, in snaking their escape.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 10
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170PUSH FIRES IN POVERTY BAY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1974, 3 February 1914, Page 10
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