PASTURE DESTROYED
Grass fires in the city have kept the Palmerston North Fire Brigade busy lately, and one with a serious aspect' otcurred on "Saturdayfalong a 400-yard frontage,adjacent to the railway line and close:tothe electric power station, at Terrace ; ..End. .. It. quickly swept through 10 acres of pasture. The brigade; had a difficult task, and had to run out-One lead of hose 1300 feet long.' ''■ ' ' ■■'■ ':; '•■ ■_■'■■• . . ■'•• '•• ;•/ The hottest weekend this summer fell to the lot of the city on. Saturday and yesterday. The thermometer touched,, 87 degrees,, .and. hundreds flocked but of town to, the seaside and rivers. Eain is urgently . needed. January proved a month'such as is rarely experienced in New Zealand. The rainfall was only; 2.93 inches.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 6
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