FIRE HAZARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1938, Page 4

FIRE HAZARD

PROTECTION OF FOREST RESERVES. CO-OPERATION OF LOCAL BODIES & PUBLIC SOUGHT. Hearty support for a request by the State Forest Service for full co-opera-tion of the public and the council to protect from fire during the summer season the remaining areas of State ’Forest and the other native and exotic forests was forthcoming at yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council.

The State Forest Service, bringing the matter under the council’s notice, stated that owing to the scattered nature of much of this property and the smallforest staff available'for patrol, it was difficult to keep in close contact with all reserves. The council, the Service suggested, might be willing to assist to some extent by instructing roadmen when working in the vicinity of forests to assist as much as possible by extinguishing small fires left by campers and others, checking the lighting of billy fires in dangerous places and in the event of fires 'which appeared to be serious, getting in touch with the nearest office of the State Forest Service. Councillor G. Moore said a forest reserve in his district was -being opened up to some extent by a new road and he considered,a warning notice should be erected at the end of the road. Other notices could be placed on the. road in Councillor Armstrong’s riding. He suggested that the Service should be advised that if it supplied the notices the council would have them erected.