BUSH FIRE AT WAITATI
mother and son in HOSPITAL
DUNEDIN, September 15. A woman and her son had a narrow escape on Saturday when a crib at Waitati was razed and thousands of pine trees and hundreds of cords of stacked pine wood, worth hundreds of pounds, were burned by a bush fire, apparently started ,by a spark from a passing railway engine. Fanned by a 50-mile-an-hour north-west gale, the fire swept through manuka scrub. The woman was Mrs Daisy*Moss, of Dunedin, who was ill in bed at a week-end residence. When the flames threatened the house and she and her 17-year-old son tried unsuccessfully to save the building, both suffered shock and burns and were admitted to hospital. The fire swept over a hill and several other dwellings were endangered, but a large number of fire-fighters saved these.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24981, 16 September 1946, Page 4
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