MORE GRASS FIRES
SEVERAL CALLS YESTERDAY There were several more grass fires in the city and suburban districts yesterday. Little damage was done. Four calls ■were received by the Mount Albert Brigade, all fires being of a minor nature. Two alarms received by the Takapuna Brigade yesterday w to the bush on the Napier Estate, Napier Avenue, and another was to Shakespeare Road, near the Wairau Bridge. Burning grass in the railway cutting near Park Road, Ivhyber Pass, was attended to by the City Brigade a little after 5.20 p.m. The Newmarket Brigade extinguished a blaze at the rear of Hancock’s Brewery in the same road a little later. Here some wooden fencing was damaged. A fire in some gorse between the Takapuna racecourse and Wairoa Road was suppressed with little difficulty by the Devonport Brigade.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 268, 2 February 1928, Page 15
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136MORE GRASS FIRES Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 268, 2 February 1928, Page 15
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