Moving the adoption of the reserves committee's report at a meeting of the Dunedin City Council. Cr. Munro said he would like to appeal to people to exercise care to prevent tires from breaking out in the city reserves and plantations. The throwing of a lighted match might cause a dire in a plantation, it was slated, and bring about great destruction, more specially if a wind were blowing. The chairman of Hie water committee, Cr. Shepherd, also spoke of the danger to the water department's reserves by careless people and irresponsible boys lighting tires in the vicinity of plantations. His department intended Io take action to punish people detected lighting tires on the plantation areas.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19381109.2.86
Bibliographic details
Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 39, 9 November 1938, Page 10
Word Count
116Untitled Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 39, 9 November 1938, Page 10
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in