FOREST IN DANGER.—When fire broke out in a block of felled bush on Saturday morning, 40,000 Ceres of State forest at Waipoua, north of Dargaville, were saved from serious damage by a band of twenty men who fought frantically for thirty hours over Saturday and Sunday. This picture shows the motor road through the forest, the branches of the giant kauris on each side making cathedral-like arches overhead .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 4
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68FOREST IN DANGER.—When fire broke out in a block of felled bush on Saturday morning, 40,000 Ceres of State forest at Waipoua, north of Dargaville, were saved from serious damage by a band of twenty men who fought frantically for thirty hours over Saturday and Sunday. This picture shows the motor road through the forest, the branches of the giant kauris on each side making cathedral-like arches overhead. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 19 January 1938, Page 4
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