FIRE IN SCENIC RESERVE
TWO THOUSAND ACRES DESTROYED Dominion Special Service. Nelson, January 20. Many fires in various parts of the district continue. The position is serious, but not alarming. The Conservator of State Forests (Mr. C. M. Smith) has returned to Nelson after a two days’ visit to the burning areas at Tophouse and in the Buller Valiev, between Glenhope and Kawatiri. He reports that the whole countryside is smouldering right from Tophouse to Korere. It is not a case of raging fires in this area, but every afternoon a light breeze fans the embers into a blaze, which fills the whole countryside with smoke. The head waters of Lake Rotoiti are a mass of smoke, but campers and holiday-mak-ers on the northern shores have not been disturbed. One tongue of fire swept up towards rainbow, a'nd, according to accounts, the whole countryside there is burning. Fire caused from a match dropped after lighting a cigarette destroyed about 2000 acres of scenic reserve on the Buller road, between Kawatiri and Gowan bridge, roughly a frontage of two miles.
The need for protection against fire loss is obvious. Consult The Mercantile and General Insurance Company Ltd., Panama Street, Wellington.— Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 96, 21 January 1928, Page 8
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200FIRE IN SCENIC RESERVE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 96, 21 January 1928, Page 8
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