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SERIOUS FIRE DAMAGE

ON MARLBOROUGH FARMS AND STATIONS SWATHE BURNZD ACROSS FIVE PROPERTIES. BLAZE FOUGHT BY OVER 200 MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. A black swathe was burned across five farms and sheep stations for a distance of several miles yesterday, when a fierce grass fire swept an area exceeding 1,500 acres. Over 200 men, including members of the Armed Forces, were engaged in an all-day fight with the flames. Only their strenuous efforts averted the destruction of threatened homesteads and station buildings. In addition to a serious loss of feed, two stacks of wheat on the Tyntesfield Estate were destroyed, as well as a large blue gum plantation, orchard and vacant whare. On other properties there were stock losses, but the number of sheep trapped is not yet known. The fire started in a paddock of headed wheat stubble at 8.30 in the morning. Spreading swiftly, it was not controlled until after 5 o’clock. As a result of two months of drought, the district is as dry as tinder and the fife risk is mounting daily. Already there have been several more or less serious fires, in one of which the Wairau River Board had a plantation of ten thousand trees virtually wiped out. Another fire started when a header harvester capsized, starting a fire which destroyed the machine and menaced a homestead.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 4

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SERIOUS FIRE DAMAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 4

SERIOUS FIRE DAMAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 4

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