FIRE IN SAWDUST.
AN OLD MILL AT PUNAWAi.
SECOND OUTBREAK TO-DAY
The Ashburton County Council’s firefighting equipment w T ent out to a fire in a large heap of sawdust at the site of an abandoned sawmill in a Council plantation at Punawai this morning. The saw'dust was on fire on Thursday might and it is considered likely that it has been smouldering since. It w r as thought to have been started by a spark from a railway engine. The heap was left after milling operations in the plantation about a year ago. Little information is available in Ashburton but it is mot thought that the fire is of a serious nature. Pumawai is about 1.5 miles out of Ashburton on the Mount Somers raihvay line.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 49, 7 December 1940, Page 6
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