BUSH FIRE.
FOREST IN DANGER. Per Press Association. DARGAVILLE, Jan. 17. Strenuous efforts resulted in keeping in check a fire which it is alleged was maliciously set alight early on Saturday morning in a block of 70 acres of felled bush adjoining and bounded upon three sides by the mile and ahalf frontage of the southern boundary of the Waipoua Forest. • Twenty men under Mr Courtney Biggs, officer in charge of the .forest, worked throughout Saturday and Sunday, and by 6 o’clock last night the fire’was under control. The fire did not cross the forest boundary. Mr Biggs had refused the owner of the section and also other settlers permission to light any bush within an area continguous to the forest owing to the dry weather.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 9
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126BUSH FIRE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 9
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