FIRE PREVENTION
FORESTRY REGULATIONS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday New regulations designed to prevent forest fires have been gazetted. Forest officers are given power to enter private lands for the suppression of fires. All engines operating in State forests or fire districts from August 1 to April 30 must be equipped with spark arresters and in addition steps must be taken for the prevention of the escape of fire and live coals from ash pans and fire boxes. Certain relaxations are granted ill respect of milking machines and shearing plants. As a further safeguard the Director of Forestry may, during periods of extreme fire danger, suspend logging or sawmilling. A further provision makes it an offence for any person to threw or drop any kind smouldering substance jn a State forest or fire district from August. 1 to April 30, and it has also been made an offence to enter a State forest or any exotic forest in a fire district without a permit.
Responsibility is placed on every person who works in or adjacent to a State forest or fire district or happens to be within those areas for any purpose whatsoever to tend and control forest fires.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21230, 28 September 1940, Page 10
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199FIRE PREVENTION Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21230, 28 September 1940, Page 10
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