GRASS AND HEDGE FIRES
BRIGADE CALLED OUT
TWICE
Shortly before 12.30 yesterday afternoon, the Tauranga "Volunteer Fire Brigade received a. call to a grass fire in the vicinity of the overhead railway bridge leading down to Sulphur Point. The fire was burning in grass on the railway embankment just south of the 'bridge and at the rear of a house property. Slight damage was caused to a paling fence, the outbreak being soon brought under control by the brigade. At about 4.30 p.m. the syren again, summoning the brigade to a fire in a hedge at the southern .end of Devonport Road. I Damage was caused to the hedge.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14298, 22 February 1947, Page 3
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