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Taupo Times, Volume IV, Issue 192, 30 September 1955, Page 10

ANNOUNCEMENTS OFRUEAL FIRE COMMITTEES

1955-56 FIRE SEASON

Rotorua. Any such calls may be made "Collect." The New Zealand Forest Service as a Fire Authority will co-operate to the utmost, consistent with the conditions prevailing, in granting permits to burn, where essential land clearing is concerned but the prevention of fire and control of outbreaks that do occur depends largely on the co-operation of the general public in preventing fires from start--ing, and in notifying fires in the incipient stages.

ten permit from one of the undersigned Fire Officers. Any person discovering an unattended fire in the district is under a statutory duty to do his best to put the fire out, and to report thd fire to the nearest Fire Officer. It is an offence under the Act to drop or throw matches, cigarette butts, pipe ashes or any other smouldering substance on any land at any time without wholly extinguishing the smouldering substance before leaving the spot. It is also an offence to enter the pine plantation of Pine Products Proprietary, Ltd., without the written permicsion of the Manager of the Company. An offence under the Act is punishable by imprisonment not exceeding one month or a fine not exceeding £100. Dated October 1, 1955. VIVIAN T. FAIL, Principal Fire Officer. A. C. BAILEY, Deputy-Fire Officer. C./o Pine Products Proprietary, Taupo.

It is notified for general information that the 1955-56 Fire Season under the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1947 for the Kaingaroa, Whakarewarewa, Rotoehu and Whirinaki Rural Fire Districts commences on the 1st October, 1955 and continues until the 30th April, 1956. . During the Fire Season no person shall : (a) In any rural fire district during a closed fire season or in any county areas 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 other plants whatsoever, or any other combustible material whatsoever, except pursuant to the written permit of a Fire Officer. (b) In any rural fire district between the first day of October in any o'ne 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 from funnel or exhaust and for preventing the escape of live coals or fire from ashpan or firebox. (c) Throw, leave, or drop any lighted match, pipe-ash, lighted cigarette, lighted cigar, ashes from gas producer, or other burning or smouldering substance on any land at any time and omits before leaving the spot wholly to extinguish the fire 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 any person who is felling trees for any commercial or 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 standing trees or the debris of the treefelling 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 controlling the Rural Fire District, as under: KAINGAROA Rural Fire District: Fire Officer: A. N. Sexton. Kaingaroa Forest Ileadquarters. • Telephone 199S, 200 Rotorua. Whakarewarewa Rural Fire District. Fire Officer: P. W. Maplesden, Whaka Forest. Telephone 674, Rotorua. - Rotoehu Rural Fire District. Fire Officer: J. R. Rodger, Rotoehu Forest, Via Te Puke. Telephone 1M Ohinepanea, 1K Te Puke after office hours. Whirinaki Rural Fire District. Fire Officer : J. Birt, Te Whaiti. Telephone 5 Te Whaiti. It is a statutory obligation on any person discovering a fire burning unattended in a State Forest or in a Rural Fire District to do everything reasonable within his power to extinguish the fire, and to have the outbreak reported to the nearest Fire Officer. Any fires discovered should be reported to any of the Fire Officers mentioned or to: Conservator of Forests, Rotorua. Telephones 2090, 2091, 2092, 2093

FIRE AUTHORITIES

Tokoroa Rural Fire District and Tahorakuri Rural Fire District It is desired to bring to the notice of all parties who may be affected that the Committee for each of the above districts is the sole fire authority in the respective fire districts. Plans for Tokoroa and Tahorakuri Rural Fire Districts may be inspected at the Tokoroa office of N.Z. jE Forest Products Ltd. Each Committee received its authority and powers from the Forest & Rural Fires Act 1947 and amendments and operates under an Order-in-Council. The Act specified that during the closed fire season (October 1st to April 30th) no person shall set on fire or cause to be set on fire in the open air in any fire district any combustible material whatsoever, except pursuant to the written permit of a Rural Fire Officer. Applications for permits to light fires in the open air should be made to the Rural Fire Officer appointed by the Committee as follows: — Tokoroa Rural Fire District. 1. Waotu-Wiltsdown : Mr J. O. Barnett, ph. 9, Putaruru. 2. South • Lichfield, Tokoroa, Mangakino, Whakamaru : Mr C. J. Glass, ph. 83K or 1K Tokoroa. 3. Atiamuri, Guthrie, Mokai, Oruanui: Mr J. H. O'Connor, ph. 79Z, Tokoroa. 4. Failing contact with the abovementioned, contact Forest Fire Control, ph. 14, Tokoroa. Tahorakuri Rural Fire District. Rotorua-Taupo Highway, Mihi to Aratiatia turn-off. 1. Mr J. H. O'Connor, ph. 79Z, Tokoroa. 2. Failing contact with the abovementioned, contact Forest Fire Control, ph. 14, Tokoroa.

TAUPO COUNTY.

FIRE SEASON, 1955/56. Public Notice is hereby given under the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1947 that from the 1st October 1955 until the 30th April 1956 the lighting of fires is prohibited in the Taupo County area (as described below) except with the written permission of: — The Principal Rural Fire Officer or his Deputy, County Office, Lake Terrace Road, TAUPO, Phone 119. The Taupo County area is the whole of the Taupo County except those areas within the boundaries of Rural Fire Districts. A map showing the boundaries of the County and the Rural Fire Districts may be inspected at the County Office, Taupo, during business hours. Persons seeking permits to burn, especially on farms, should make application several weeks beforehand so that an inspection .can be made. If insufficient notice is given, the issue of a permit may be delayed. A. H. O'KEEFE, Principal Rural Fire Officer.

LIGHTING OF FIRES PROHIBITED.

TAUHARA RURAL FIRE DISTRICT

BOROUGH OF TAUPO. PURSUANT to Section 18 of the Forest and Rural Fires Act, 1947, the lighting of fires in the open in the area comprising the Borough of Taupo is hereby prohibited until further notice except pursuant to the written permit of a Rural Fire Officer. Such permits will not be obtainable after the 31st day of October, 1955. This order is issued with the consent and approval of the Taupo Borough Council. Dated at Taupo this lst day of October, *1955. VIVIAN T. FAIL, Rural Fire Officer, Tauhara Rural Fire District. NOTB: Applications for permits to burn should be made to the Chief Fire Officer, Volunteer Fire Brigade, Mr. K. Ross Douglas, Kaimanawa Road, Taupo.

FIRE SEASON 1955-56. THE above Fire District, constituted under the Forest and Rural Fires Act, 1947, comprises an area of 55,000 acres in Taupo County, bounded generally as follows: Commencing at the ten-mile peg on the Taupo-Napier State Highway toward the south-west by the centre of the Taupo-Napier State Highway to the boundary of the Taupo Town District; toward the west and south generally by the Taupo Town District to the Waikato River; toward the north-east generally by the right bank of the Waikato River (passing Huka Falls, Aratiatia . Rapids, the Pine Plantation of Pine Products Pty Ltd., Successors to Afforestation Pty Ltd., and toward the north-east and south-east generally by the boundaries of the Kaingaroa Fire District. The attention of District and Taupo Residents, Fishermen, Pighunters, Deer Stalkers and District Visitors is drawn to the following: — A closed fire season has been proclaimed in - the district from October 1, 1955 to April 30, 1956. During this period it is an offence to light a fire in the open air anywhere in the district without a writ-

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