BUSH FIRES
SETTLERS HAVING ANXIOUS TIME. Press Association. DANNEVIRKE, February 12. The high wind raging last night and to-day fanned the bush fires into activity, and the town and district were enveloped in thick smoke. Settlers in the Rumeti block, near Dannevirke, are having an anxious time. Unless tho wind drops extensive damage is probable. The, residence of a settler named Young has been destroyed. Rasmussen’s homestead is reported to have been bnrned, and other settlers are fighting hard to save their places. The 1 fires are still raging, but there are indications of rain.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8353, 13 February 1913, Page 9
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95BUSH FIRES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8353, 13 February 1913, Page 9
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