PROHIBITION OF FIRES

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 90, 9 October 1953, Page 7

PROHIBITION OF FIRES

TAUPO COUNTY TOKOROA- TAHORAKURI RURAL FIRE DISTRICTS Public Notice is hereby given under the Forest and Rural Fires Act, 1947, that commencing on the 1st day of October, 1953, and until 30th April, 1954, unless a written permit has been obtained from one of the undermentioned Rural Fire Officers, the lighting of fires is prohibited in the following portions of Taupo County:-— All that area outside the Tokoroa and Tahorakuri Rural Fire Districts lying generally between Lake Taupo, Oruanui and Aratiatia Rapids and bounded on the west by the western boundary of Tahingamata West Survey District and on the south east by the unformed road running from Whakaipo Bay to the Oruanui-Taupo Road, thence by the Waitoa-Wairakei Highway to its junction with Section 2, Block X Tatua Survey District, thence to the north east by the north west boundary of this section to its intersection with the Wairakei Stream, thence by this stream to its junction with the Waikato River, thence by that river to its junction with Tahorakuri

Rural Fire District below the Aratiatia Rapids. In addition, ail that area generally north east of Oruanui and between the Tokoroa Rural Fire District on the west, the Tahorakuri Fire District on the south east and the Waikato River on the north east. Rural Fire Officers: L. C. Kingsbury, Atiamuri. Phone 79Z TOKOROA. dosM R. B. Moorhouse, Tokoroa, Phone 14 TOKOROA. J. E. Henry, Tokoroa, Phone 155 TOKOROA. The attehtion of all persons is drawn to Section 3 of the Forests and Rural Fires Amendment Act 1951, and all persons are hereby warned that the Qommittees of the above Districts will in all cases sue for recovery qf cost of investiga1 tions of all illegal fires. R. B. MOORHOUSE, Chairman and Principal Fire Officer Tokoroa and Tahorakuri Rural Fire Committees.