Boat owners fight fire
J (N.Z. 'Press Association) /'WELLINGTON, January 6. 1} About 20 Foxton boat 1 owners, who saw a fire in , the Waitarere forest from the ■j other side of the Manawatu . River this morning, crossed ’ the river to help Forest Ser2 vice men fighting the fire. Mr W. Gerling-Butcher, the 5 fire control officer, said ’ favourable winds prevented 1 the fire from reaching the pine trees inside the boundtjary trees of the forest. He gisaid the fire started from a ■. fishing party’s illicitly-lit boni fire, which was left burning 1 overnight. 5
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33426, 7 January 1974, Page 12
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