BUSH FIRES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9066, 5 February 1908, Page 8

BUSH FIRES.

t Press Association. / Wellington, February 4. : Mr Hogg, M.P., who has just completed a tour of the Eketalmna district where the bush and grass fires have been raging, interviewed the Minister of Lands to-day and presented a petition signed by twentytwo Nireaha settlers, asking that grass seed be provided on terms for those who had badly suffered. Mr Hogg seated that those who cmld weather the storm would accept no aid but there were families who had lost home and grass, and had to sacrifice cattle on which they depended. The Minister said he recognised that in such cases the State had a duty to perform and he would refer the memorial to the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the purpose of having the assistance required promptly rendered.