SCRUB FIRE AT WAIKUKU
Prompt Action By Campers
Prompt action by campers and residfents at Waikuku Beach prevented a scrub Are spreading into the pine plantation yesterday morning. About 30 to 40 campers turned out when the alarm was sounded at the beach settlement, and fought the Are for nearly an hour and a half The Rangiora County Council water tender attended the fire, which was well under control by the time it arrived, but it spread water to kill the embers. The Rangiora Volunteer Fire Brigade answered an alarm at 11.10 am., but except for some embers the Are was extinguished when it arrived.
Trees Saved Among the first to the fire was Mr L. Campbell and a neighbour and they cut off the lower branches of the outside row of pine trees bordering the fire, preventing it from getting a hold amongst the trees. Permanent residents and campers, including the Speaker of v the House of Representatives (Mr R. M. Macfarlane) attacked the fire by shovelling sand on to the burning lupins. The voluntary flre-flghting by the campers was a splendid effort; said one resident, particularly as they had to work against the wind By their good work the fire was confined to an area of a few hundred square yards of rushes and lupin.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28793, 14 January 1959, Page 7
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