GRASS AND GORSE FIRES
It is little credit to Wellington City that last week-end there should have been 16 calls to the Fire Brigade to suppress grass and gorse fires on the hillsides in and about the urban area. Incidentally there were serious outbreaks in the Hutt Valley. Fires of this kind are not the result of spontaneous combustion. Their origins are in human carelessness, and, occasionally, sheex- vandalism. The present is an exceptionally dry season, and a serious responsibility rests upon all and sundry to see that picnic fires, matches, cigaretteends, and cigar-butts are carefully stamped out. Everything is as dry as tinder, and highly inflammable. The appeal to all concerned is an appeal to common, sense, and also an appeal for consideration on behalf of an unnecessarily over-worked ’Fire Brigade, over-worked because of acts of human carelessness that can only be described as culpable stupidity.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 8
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147GRASS AND GORSE FIRES Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 8
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