MILE OF FLAMES
SWAMP ABLAZE ON PLAINS FIGHT TO SAVE FLAX (From Our Own Correspondent) NGATEA, Monday. Another peat fire such as did great damage on the Hauraki Plains last summer seems probable in the Patetonga district. Sparks from a bush fire on the Waikato side of the hills on Friday ignited the grass and peat on Mr. F. J. Mayn’s farm at Maukoro, and by Sunday afternoon hundreds of acres had been burned. A steady wind is driving the flames through the dry grass and peat on a front of nearly a mile despite the strenuous efforts of large gangs of settlers, Lands Drainage Department employees and flax-mill workers. All drains have been dammed to flood the land and the men are trenching and back-burning in an effort to prevent the fire spreading to other farms and to the Maukoro mill’s big area of millable flax which lies in the two-mile wide belt along the Piakc riverbank. The whole of the Ilauraki Plains and the Thames Valley is filled with smoke from this and numerous other fires in bush, tall fescue grass and scrub.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 592, 19 February 1929, Page 1
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185MILE OF FLAMES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 592, 19 February 1929, Page 1
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