THE BUSH FIRES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 February 1913, Page 6

THE BUSH FIRES

IN THE DANNEVIRKE DISTRICT. (By Telegraph. — Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, Last Night. Details of the losses from . bush fires are how available. They show that settlers at lluaroa, were particularly heavy losers. Over four miles of country was swept in this district, and the wonder is that any houses were left standing at all. The following losses were sustained at liuaroa, Jiot taking stock into account : Francis Gratwick Yarrell, 4roomed house, insured for £75 with the Norwich; Arthur Maxwell Yarrell, d-roomed cottage, whare and trapshed, insured for £195 with the State ; Stanley JJerfc Fairbrother, 5-roomed house, furniture, persQ|nal effects, cowbail, £440 with the Norwich; Richard Henry Fairbrother, 3-roomed cottage, £IOO insurance on cottage and contents in the State; George Waller, 3roomed cottage, £75 with the Norwich; Donghi Bros., cow and trapsheil, estimated loss £llO, insured in tho Norwich; John Sullivan, stable and contents, £6O in Norwich; Morn's, cowshed. £SO in Norwich, At Upper Pin Pin, the settlors had a bad time, the following losses occurring there: G. and A. Wright, calfshed and separator, and had house damaged, covered in State Office; J. Aylward, house and furniture, house insured for £45 in the State Office, and additional '£6o on tho house with Norwich, £llO on furniture, and £9B on other buildings in the Norwich ; Inder and Fortune, house and furniture and outbuildings and haystack, also 20 head of cattle. Every settler, in addition, ha,s lost feed, so the .position is very serious, as most of them are small struggling farmers.