FOUR GORSE FIRES
BRIGADES KEPT BUSY The Mount Eden and Mount Albert fire brigades extinguished four gorse fires yesterday. Fifteen acres of cut, dry gorse in East Avenue. Mount Eden, caught alight yesterday, and 16 firemen, armed with sacks and branches, had to work strenuously for over an hour before the flames were put out. A fire in a paddock between the houses occupied by Mrs. Mitchell, 746, Dominion Road, and Mrs. Jerram, 2. Marsden Avenue, threatened the buildings, blistering the paint on the walls. The brigade had a hard fight before the houses were safe. The Mount Albert Brigade was called ot to a gorse fire in Allendale Road and later to a similar outbreak in the Mount Albert Reserve at Morningside.
On a long run a railway locomotive needs about 30 gallons of water for each mile travelled, _—
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 3
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