FIRE AT TE PUKE
FLAX AREA SWEPT On Saturday a fire swept an area of about 430 acres of the Pongakawa and Waihi Swamp, destroying about 600 tons of growing flax, which was ready to cut. It was only by the strenuous efforts of a number of willing workers that the fire was prevented from spreading over the whole of the swamp, which contains several thousands of acres of valuable flax. Most of this land is held under the Government renewal lease. Messrs. Main, Collins and McLean are heavy losers.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19271027.2.30.3
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 2
Word Count
90FIRE AT TE PUKE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 186, 27 October 1927, Page 2
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in