PACK YOUR BOTTLES AWAY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1914, Page 6

PACK YOUR BOTTLES AWAY.

Fires are often surrounded in mystery and for that reason the cause of a strange outbreak in the Whanapaki district, which nearly resulted in a serious conflagration. is> of interest On a recent occasion Mrs T. Brooker placed a row of empty jam jars on a sack outside the house. Shortly afterwards Hie sack and grass in the vicinity was found to be ablaze and the outbreak was not checked until it had seriously threatened, the building The cause of the fire was found to be that a jam jar had focussed the sun's rays and concentrated them to such an extent as to cause fire. The dangers of class causing fires during summer time in the North are not altogether unknown to the Natives who make a practice of burying any hot - ties which might cause grass fires around their settlements.