DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 231, 18 February 1913, Page 8

DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES.

j DAXNKVIRKE LOSSES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Dannevivke, Monday. Details of losses by br.sh fires now available slio'.v that settlers at Eua Boa 'were particularly heavy sufferers. Over ifour miles of country was <:wept in this ; district, and the wonder is that any j lumses were left standing at all. The following' were the losses at Una lloa, not taking stock into account: Francis 'Gratwick Yarrell, a four-roomed house, 'insured for £75 in the Xorwich Union Office: Arthur Maxwell Yarrell. a fonrrooined cottage, whare and trapshed. insured for ClO5 in the State Office; Stanley Bert Faii-brothcr, a five-roomed house , with furniture and personal effects. and a cow-bail, insurance £l4O in the Xorwich Union-. Richard Henry Fail-brother . lost a three-roomed cottage valued at I £IOO, the cottage and contents being i insured in the State Office; (leorge Wal- | ler lost a three-roomed cottage, insured 'for £7.3 in the Xorwich Union; Donghi /Bros., a cow and trap sheds, the estimated loss being £IOO, insured in the Xorwich Union; John Sullivan, a stable and contents, insured for £tio in the Xorwich Union: Morris, a cowshed, insured for £.">o in the Xorwich Union. At Upper Piri Piri the settlers had a bad time. The following losses occurred there.: —O. and A. Wright lost a calfshed and a separator, and had their house damaged, which was covered in the State Office: J. Aylward lost his house and furniture: there was £45 on the house in the State Office and an additional £1)0 on the house with the Xorwich Union. £llO on the furniture and £OB on other buildings in the Xorwich Union. Inder and Fortune lost their houses, furniture and outbuildings, and a haystack, and also 20 head of cattle. 'Every settler has in addition lost feed, so the position is very serious, as most v\vem are small strugsliusi farmers. y