Bush Fires in Southland.
,INVERCARGILL, January 10. The "Southland Times" Otautau correspondent reports extensive fires in the Longwood bush. Five bushmen, working in the Harrington j Reserve, have been cut off from their huts by the burning of the bush tramways. It is hoped that they may be able to make their way out by Merivale, but there is a fire in the bush on that side which may complicate matters. * GORE, January 10. Word has come to hand that the Waikaia bush, about thirty, miles above the township of. Waikaia, has been on fire for over a week. j The fire is supposed to have originated through a person ' carelessly throwing a lighted match amongst some dead manuka. The bush carries a lot of fine timber, birch of particularly durable quality being plentiful, and it only awaited railway facilities to make it extensively used. The fire has burnt back into the heart of the bush, and unless rain comes, which does not at present appear probable, the bush, will be completely destroyed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9025, 11 January 1908, Page 5
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173Bush Fires in Southland. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9025, 11 January 1908, Page 5
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