A NIGHT OF TERROR
FIRE SWEEPS VALLEY. SEVERAL BUILDINGS DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) MOTUEKA, March 29. ■, Fanned by a high wind, a fire on Tuesday night swept through the Canaan Valley on the Takaka hills, near Motueka, consuming in its path ■the homestead of Mr E. Sixtus, and sheds, a stable, haystacks, and whares on the property of Mr J. Sixtus, and causing heavy loss of stock and feed. When the flames passed after a night of terror for residents of the valley, all that remained was the homestead of Mr J. Sixtus, saved by hours of strenuous fighting by the owner. Of 1000'sheep in the valley only 50-were mustered yesterday. A dramatic story was brought into Motueka last evening of the night-long fight of Mr J. Sixtus to save his home. He carried buckets of water single handed from a creek.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1939, Page 6
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142A NIGHT OF TERROR Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1939, Page 6
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