COUNTY CENTRES.
HIGHBANK
Highbank was visited with a very heavy nor'-wester on Monday night and :\!1 chvy on Tucsd.iy until 7 p.m.. when it commenced to rain very heavily, and continued until 9.H0 p.m. During the wind a. smouldering (ire in the river-bod was fanned i:vi-o a flame, which soon got hold of the clry undergrowth raid spread with alarm in;? rapidity. ■Mr W. McLean's house'was in grave? danger.-until the rain came.
o\vm<i to the dry weather the district farmers'have mads great Headway with putting in the crops. A fail- amount of wheat is now in.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9633, 13 June 1919, Page 3
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96COUNTY CENTRES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9633, 13 June 1919, Page 3
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