FIRE IN A FLAX SWAMP
By Telegraph—Press Assn. Palmerston North, January 29. Tho Chamber of Commerce to-night passed a resolution protesting to Mr. Hiley, General Manager of Railways, against the Department not having a proper system of patrol of flax areas in the North Island, thereby jeopardising enormous areas of valuable country. A fire broko out in Mr. S. Seifort's swamp at Tokomaru to-day. Between forty and seventy acres of flax was burned. Tt, is surmised that tho fire ■was kindled by a spark from a passing locomotive.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2990, 30 January 1917, Page 4
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88FIRE IN A FLAX SWAMP Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2990, 30 January 1917, Page 4
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