FIRE DANGER IN SUMMER
A preliminary warning about the fire danger in the coming summer was given at the meeting of the Selwyn Plantation Board yesterday morning. Mr M, E. Lyons said that the wide use now being made of gas-nroducers on motor vehicles constituted a very real danger because the escape of sparks could not be entirely prevented. It promised to be a very dry season. The superintendent (Mr E. A. Cooney) said that more landowners than ever before anpeared to be ploughing their roadlines this year. In the Bankside district several miles of ploughing had been done for fire breaks. . The Ellesmere and Selwyn County Councils were also ploughing strategic fire breaks. The systematic gridding of the district with good fire breaks was of great importance to the board. It was agreed to press the various contractors to burn the “slash” in the plantations to reduce the fire danger.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23755, 29 September 1942, Page 3
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