LESS SERIOUS TO-DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 22, 26 January 1935, Page 13

LESS SERIOUS TO-DAY.

BUT VIGIL NECESSARY.

LARGE AREAS SMOULDERING.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

HAMILTON, this day.

The severity of the peat fires in tlic Waikato was somewhat less to-day, foi the first time in more than a week. While a constant vigil is still necessary in many districts, the position is definitely less serious.

Hundreds of acres of partially improved. land arc, however, still smouldering, and any increase in the wind is likely to carry sparks and burning twigs to fresh areas so far untouched by the fire.

The most extensive fires this morning were burning in the Woodlands and I'ukuhia swamps, and conflagrations were still causing anxiety at Eureka and Monavale. At Monavale the fires liave made further encroachment in some parts. Mr. W. I\. Smith is the principal sufferer, over 150 acres of his 200-aere block being affected. At Te Kapa over 100 acres of peat is under fire, and a considerably larger area is burning at Newstead and Eureka.