SCRUB FIRES RAGING
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Forests Endangered at Taupo WEIRD NIGHT SPECTACLE
(From
TAUPO, Last Night'. Bcnib flfbs have been raging tbund Taupo since last Friday, pafticularly on the Napier' foad. So far nd dafflage has rhsultedjb ut at one tim6 it Was tliOught that the State forestry plAhtations would be endangefed. However, s dbange of wind directed the fifeS toward Waitahanui. * . .. A ffinge of flame blazing betWeen the tWo-mile peg and Waitahanui prO"1 vided a w.eiTd Spectacle last night. Th# teflootions on the lAke Were Such a WondOrf ui sight that a laf ge nufflbflf of speetators Wefe atttacted to the lake front. The wind at nresent is drivifig the flres back toWArd Op6p6 on the Napier road, and they Are still burniug ffbely. Taupo so far is elear of dafigef.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 4
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