DISASTROUS FIRE.
PtAX AREA DESTROYED. DAMIAGE TOTALS £.10,000. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) MORiRINBVILLE this day. A disastrous i&re swept a flax swaajn of 2000 acres between Maukoro ajrf Pat«tt)Bga on Sunday, and destroyed flax valued at £10.0 CO. The property t, owned toy the Government, and consiett of three sections averaging 500 acre* each, leased to Messrs. Dalziell Bros, o< Tahuna, iHrm-ter 'Bros., of Patetoag* and Mr. "E. L. Broad, of Palmerstoa North. The fourth section ie not y«t leased. The Sre is supposed to have been caused hj spafke from neighbouring farms. Messrs Dalziell awl Hunter tctc »boui to build two new mils. Considerable uncmpiovmeirt will follow. ve»r Hunter Bros, lost a crop on 1500 acresof ewamp land through 6rc.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 27, 1 February 1921, Page 5
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