Accident at Waingawa.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1943, Page 2

Accident at Waingawa.

Mr V. A. Mangham, of 20 Devon Street, Masterton, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday afternoon with a crushed toe which he received at the Waingawa Freezing Works when a steel girder fell on his foot. His condition is reported to be satisfactory.

Two Youths Missing. Two youths aged about 20, Reg. Howe and Stanley Dearlove, are re ported missing from Tangimoana, at the mouth of the Rangitikei River. They went fishing in a sailing-boat on Monday morning and were last seen at 10.30 a.m. from a launch, about a mile out to sea. As they were not back by 2 p.m. a search was made by launch and aeroplane of the area between Foxton and Wanganui without result.

Prevention of Forest Fires.

A burning cigarette butt, carelessly thrown away, might, in some districts of New Zealand, cause a national loss of up to £1,000,000, said the actingCommissioner of State Forests, Mr Barclay, appealing yesterday for public co-operation in preventing forest fires. On a conservative estimate, he said, at least 90 per cent of forest fires were caused by human carelessness or indifference. Wood was an essential commodity in wartime and for certain purposes there was no suitable substitute. It should be obvious, therefore, that at present the conservation of timber supplies was a vital part of the nation’s war economy, and any waste must count as a direct gain to the enemy.