CLEARING THE BUSH
GOOD BURNS IN POVERTY BAY. (BT TELEGRAPH— PH»BS ASSOCIATION.) GISBOBNE, This Day. Good burns have been, secured by the settlers in the back blocks, who have had the bush felled. In some districts the logs left from previous burns have been fired, and the fires have taken charge of a, considerable area of country. Fences in many cases have been destroyed, but the damage is not considerable, and ultimate good will result by clearing the country of logs. Several settlers had anxious nights whilst the fires progressed. The atmosphere around Gisborn© has been clouded with smoke for several days. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE. FARMER BURNED TO DEATH. GISBORNE, This Day. Mr. M'lntyre, a flheepfnrmer at Morere, went out to burn bush yesterday, and not returning his people became alarmed. A search party went out and found him burned to death.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19130122.2.66
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 7
Word Count
141CLEARING THE BUSH Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. 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.