DANGER OF FIRES IN CANTERBURY
COMMITTEE’S APPEAL FOR CARE The need for special precautions against fires this season because of the prolific spring growth of grass, now tinder-dry. was emphasised by the secretary of the Canterbury Rural Fire Prevention Committee (Mr P. R. Climie) yesterday. The committee has appealed to all persons in the country to exercise extreme care with matches, cigarette ends, or open fires for picnics, and emphasis has been placed on the disaster which could result from fires in damage to crops, plantations, and pastures. An appeal is made to anyone seeing a fire to act at once: to report it to the nearest postmaster if he cannot stop it himself. Every postmaster has a list of district fire wardens and is able to assemble quickly a fire-fighting, squad.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24798, 12 February 1946, Page 4
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