THE BUSH FIRES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 169, 6 April 1918, Page 8

THE BUSH FIRES

ENOUGH CLOTHING IN HAND. !' The following telegram was received yesterdav bv the Mayor (Mr. J. I'. Luke) from Mr. E. J. Barry (Mayor of Ohakune and chairman of the Fire Relief .Committee): — ■ Will you kindly intimate to your generous public that we are fully supplied with all kinds of clothing? Financial - assistance is still; needed and will lie most acceptable. The above telegram tallies exactly with tho - reports of the-'Mayor and Brigadier Bray, of the Salvation Army, who worked for two days- and nights on - the spot' -in Raetihi, - unpacking goods and distributing 'them-over the • counter-to those in need. As a matter of fact, some of the people, "who were burnt out' are probably better stocked with clothing than they were befora the fire. Brigadier Bra.t says that the • popular-idea .that Raetihi is wiped o" the map. is not the .correct ono. The •'Best' 1 part c'f -the 1 ' town: remaiils : intact. Only fifty., odd-"''buildings .[.altogether were burnt' in'the township'itself, but many homesteads and farm-houses were , hnrht to the ground, ' mostly where situated amid partly-cleared ground. Not a great deal of tlie green bush country suffered. Indeed, the green hush was .responsible"to a'large extent for the absence of any fatalities in tho district. ' ' : '■