BURNT NATIVE BUSH.
TELEGRAPH LINESMEN AND FIRE 3. DEPARTMENTAL DISCLAIMER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TE AWAMUTU, Sunday. The allegation was made reccntlv that linesmen engaged in laying a telegraph line had allowed fire to spread and destroy par ft of the native bush along the Te Awanmtu-Kawlila main highway, near Te Rauamoa. In a letter which he has forwarded to Mr. W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., the Post-master-General, the Hon. A. Hamilton, disclaims responsibility for the Postal Department for the main fire, which destroyed about three-quarters of a mile of native bush and shrubs along the roadway. The Minister states that the larger of two outbreaks was caused by a fire which was lit by a settler to clear his fence line, and which got out of hand. A smaller fire damaged about 12 acres only. The letter adds that all reasonable precautions are being taken to prevent anything of tTio nature occurring again.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 252, 24 October 1932, Page 5
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152BURNT NATIVE BUSH. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 252, 24 October 1932, Page 5
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