PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Emphasising the need for care to prevent fires in Southland during tne present dry weather, the Conservator of Forests, Mr J. F. Field, referred to the increased responsibilities of the public under the recently-passed Forest and Rural Fires Bill, It was now an offence, Mr Field explained at Invercargill last week, ( for anyone to set fire to trees, gorse, grass, or any other combustible material in any rural fire, district during a “ closed fire season ” —from August 1 to April 31—or in any country area without the written permission of a fire officer. It was also an offence to discard any lighted match, pipe ashes, lighted cigarette, or any other burning or smouldering substance on an y An additional clause m the Bill stated that, even if a person received permission to light a fire, he was committing a breach if he lit such fire after a broadcast warning against lighting fires in the particular area. Actually, it is now an.offence, Mr Field concluded, even to boil a billy after a broadcast warning had been given. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26628, 26 November 1947, Page 6
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178PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITIES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26628, 26 November 1947, Page 6
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