CARELESS FIRES
NEED OF DRASTIC ACTION Mr E. T. Frost writes from. £arenga, North Auckland, to Capta Sanderson, President of the .Foies and Bird Protection Society, as 1 . 10 “Stricter methods of dealing with the fire menace need to be unde taken if we are to preserve the nant of forest. This year has been . disastrous. In the far nqith, sands of acres have been 0 / e and the country side is an eyes ■ It should be made an offence to a fire at all in many d a u the authorities were notified and precautions taken to control i • “If I had my way I ? rn claim the whole of the six counties as fire areas and place .the burning o'ff of any scrub. etc., “ity. control of a responsible authority The position has got so desperate that some such drastic measu needed. Meantime we can onl / tinue to agitate and educate * J®, f v > hope ‘thhC our wdrk ' Will bear _ ’(-nvc^' .1 t.. t • r'l 1- -*1 •- t.‘> .■•it '-i- ' .
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12730, 1 May 1939, Page 4
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