MANY GRASS FIRES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 283, 20 February 1928, Page 11

MANY GRASS FIRES

FACTORY DESTROYED HOUSES THREATENED A joinery workshop and outbuildings in Brown’s Koad, Manurewa, were i destroyed by a grass fire during the week-end. Numerous other fires threatened buildings and kept the various brigades busy. Altogether 24 calls were received, four of these being false alarms. A grass fire which had been burning tor two days at Manurewa spread on Friday to a joinery workshop and outbuildings, which contained a new motor-truck, all being destroyed. Neighbours prevented the flames spreading to the house. The owner, Mr. C. A. Palmer, was absent at the time. The buildings were not insured and the loss is estmiated at about £ 600. Eight grass fires were extinguished by the Mount Albert Brigade during til© week-end, on© outbreak on Sunday in Taylor’s Hoad, Morningside, burning four acres of gorse. Several houses were endangered. The brigade had a hard struggle for over an hour before the flames were under control. The City Brigade received seven calls, three being false alarms. The fires were in Manawara Road and Portland Road, Remuera; Norfolk Street, Grey Lynn, and Birdwood Crescent, Parnell. A scrub fire in Northcote on Saturday afternoon swept the area from Church Street, above the Waitemata bowling green, to the waterfront in Little Shoal Bay. A number of houses were endangered, but the Northcote Brigade, aided by willing helpers, prevented any damage except to outbuildings on the property of Mr. E. Howard. Here a shed was burned. The same brigade also extinguished a lire on a vacant section in Park Avenue, near the Junior High School. The Onehunga Brigade extinguished a blaze on Mill Street on Saturday afternoon and was called out by a false alarm later in the evening. A fire in Wairoa Road, Devonport, was attended to by the brigade yesterday. The Mount Eden Brigade put out a fire in Lambert Epad on Saturday afternoon. At the same time the Mount Roskill Brigade was called out to Kingston Avenue. About 6 p.m. yesterday the Newmarket Brigade extinguished a grass ligre in Gillies Avenue when it had approached to within a few feet of a large timber stack. A grass fire in Lloyd Avenue, Mount Albert, a little before midday to-day set alight to several stacks of timber. The fire brigade soon extinguished the blaze, little damage being done.