FOREST FIRES.
PRECAUTIONS AT ROTORUA RESERVES.
(special to "the fbess.")
WELLINGTON, December 3.
Ono of the things which, constitutes a serious menace to commercial forests is fire. Mr L. Mcintosh Ellis, Director of Forestry, described to a "Mnnawatu Standard" reporter tho elaborate scheme of look-out stations which' obtains at the liotorua forest reserves. The stiitions are connected by telephone, he said, and there are mounted detachments, with horses always. saddled, ready to rush to the scene of an outbreak. Prevention was tho main thing rather than suppression, for once a bush fire obtained a hold, it took a lot of stopping. Eternal vigilance was the watchword. Dynamite was kept in reserve tor use in creating blank gaps in tli-? forest to arrest the passage of fire, but ho far there had been no verv serious outbreaks in the reserves of this Dominion. Shortly, added Mr Ellis, portable pumps with lengths 0 f hose sufficient to convey water a mile from the nearest supply to a fire zone would be installed by the State Forest Service
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17937, 4 December 1923, Page 6
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