BURNING ROADS
EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE ('From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Tho Waikato has experienced a dry spell this season approaching the severity of a drought, and has suffered to an extent not hitherto known from the ravages of peat, grass and bush fires. An outbreak has just been suppressed on the Tuhikaramea-Hamilton road, where peat fires, covering roughly 40 chains along the roadside have destroyed fencing and endangered the road formation by spreading underneath. Four barrows and ten men with picks have been engaged keeping the fires in check at this point by cutting channels along the roadside and pouring in water from a tank on a lorry. The outbreak appears to be under control, but still requires close surveillance, and it is liable to break out unexpectedly. Fire-fighters have been working on a stretch of the Rukuhia-Tuhikaramea road, as well as between Ohaupo and Inninsballen Road. The road between Innisballen and the Paterangi-Tuhika-ramea Road has suffered from fire, which men are engaged in checking. The Whatawhata-Frankton road is on fire four or five miles from the latter centre.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 281, 17 February 1928, Page 16
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180BURNING ROADS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 281, 17 February 1928, Page 16
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