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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 38, 1 October 1952, Page 8

Puhlic Notices 1952/53 FIRE SEASON It is notificd for general information that the 1952/53 Fire Season under the Forest and Rural Fires Act, 1947 for the Kaigaroa, Whakarewarewa, Rotoehu and Whiri'nakia Rural Fire Districts, commences on lst October, 1952, and continues until the 30th April, 1953. During the Fire Season no person shali : — (a) In any vural fire district during a closed fire season in any county area' while any order is in force under the last preceding section, set on fire or cause to be set on fire in the open air any trees or timber (whether standing or not), or any bracken, flax, gorse, broom, lupin, grass, or otlier I plants whatsoever or any debris from i I forest operations or land-clearing op- j I erations, or any other combustible i materlal whatsoever, except pursu- 1 i ant to the written permit of a Fire j^Officer. (b) In any rural, fire district be- ' tween the first day of October in any 1 one year and the thirtieth day of ! April in the following year operate any locomotive engine, traction engine, portable engine, or stationary engine, or any other steam or internal combustion engine whatsoever, which is not provided with safe and efficient means for preventing the escape of dangerous sparks or flame jfrom funnel or exhaust and for preventing the escape of live coals or fire from ash-pan or fire-box. (c) Throw, leave, or drop any lighted match, pipe ashes, lighted cigarette, lighted cigar, ashes from gas producer, or other burning oi smouldering substance on any land at any time and omits before leaving the spot wholiy to extinguish the fire i or the burning or smouldering substance. It is also stated: (1) The Director of Forestry may from time to time by notice in writing require that anv person who is i'elling trees for any commercial oi industrial purpose or who is producing timber in a sawmill in any area, whether within a rural fire district or not, shall provide, and maintain in effective working order, such apparatus and observe such other requirements as may be specified by the Director for the purpose of preventing, detecting, controlling, and suppressing fires among the standing trees or the debris of the tree-felling operations or the refuse from the sawmilling operations. All persons who wish to carry out burning operations in any Rural Fire District must first obtain a permit to burn from the Fire Officer controliing the Rural Fire District, as under: Kaingaroa Rural Fire District. Fire Officer: M. F. Armitage, Kaingaroa Forest Headquarters, Tele^phones 199 S & 200, Rotorua. Whakarewarewa Rural Fire District: Fire Officer: A. W. Williams, Whaka Forest, Telephone 867, Rotorua. Rotoehu Rural Fire District:

Fire Officer: R. W. Anderson, Rotoehu Forest, via Te Puke, Telephone 1 M Ohinepanea, 1 K Te Puke after office hours. Whirinaki Rural Fire District: Fire Officer: J. Eirt, Te Whaiti, Telephone 5 Te Whaiti. It is a statutory obligation on any person discovermg a fire burning unattended in a State F oiest or in a Rural Fire District to do everythiag reasonable within liis power to extinguish the fire, and to have the outbreak reported to the nearest Fire Officer. Any fires discovered should be reported to any Fire Officers mentioned or to: — Conservator of Forests, Rotorua; Telephones 112, 336, 1020. Any such calls to be made "Collect." The New Zealand Forest Service as a Fire Authority will co-operate to the utniost, consistent with the conditions prevailing, in granting permits to burn, where essential land clearing is concerned, but the pre-

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