TWO MEN SUFFOCATED
WHILE FIGHTING SCRUB FIRE. TRAGEDY AT GOLF LINKS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 14. ’ Two men died from suffocation while fighting a gorse and scrub fire which got out of control on the Rodney golf course, a mile north of Warkworth. The victims were: Selwyn Morrison, married, aged about 50, farmer, Warkworth Rudolph Willmott Ross Pulham, married, aged 53, storekeeper, Matakana. The victims were members of a party of six men engaged in burning off about two and a half acres of cut grass and gorse on the links. The wind freshened -and the flames spread rapidly till from 40 to 56 acres were ablaze. When the fire spread to a large area of ti-tree adjoining the golf course, Mr Morrison and Mr Pulham started to climb through a fence to combat the new menace. The smoke was very thick and heavy, and they were seen to be overcome by it. Their bodies were recovered shortly afterward by the other members of the party.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1943, Page 2
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