ANOTHER FLAX FIRE.
( WHAKATANE COMPANY'S LOSS jfe/ * (By Telegrnph.—Own Correspondent.) WHAKATANE, Friday. A fli'c of unknown origin destroyed about 100 acres of flax at Awnkeri, on tho Rungitaiki Plains, on Wednesday fenight? f but • luckily the major portion of : the 800-acrc block was saved hv the w'lnddropping. The fire was noticed about' 4.30 in the afternoon, when it vii* .Sweeping on a wide front before a ; s tronsr wind. It then lmd a good hold SjlUul jt seemed that the whole block ||v.*milct burn, but n* night came on the ffifellidpropped and a heavy dew helped K-t' J "toy the outbreak. The peat is still K^V)JW} er ' n ?' but further trouble is. block is one of several ' v'?>i owned by Associated Fibre F^"S e v S n ',,i m , akaUn ®' * nd « the crop i i /.'i rnf.il.?' cutting next .season the l.t v means substantial l«n
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 10
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146ANOTHER FLAX FIRE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 10
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