BUSH FIRES

Evening Post, Volume CCXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1938, Page 10

BUSH FIRES

&PRIOUS OUTBREAK

MASTER. INSPECTS AREA

(By^Telegraph—Press Associati on)

TAUMARUNUI, This Day.

Durii g recent months 'fire has taken heavy 15j all of the Dominion's bush, one of the ri lost serious outbreaks being in the National Park region, where, in Novembe r last, a bush fire affected 39,000,000* broad feet of timber in an area of MM) acres of State forest and 2000 acres of bush held under a milling right \

The saH aging' of this timber before it is affect} 3d by borer and other pests is giving f)he Commissioner of State Forests (thVa Hon. F. Langstone) great concern. Vo obtain first-hand knowledge, he ii ispected the affected areas on Saturday . and expressed the opinion that with a full measure of co-opera-tion betweeJi the State Forest Service and millers fthe salvage problem should be solved. Mr. Langsti >ne, as Minister of Lands, also paid a "t visit to the Government farm settlem* art areas at Poro-o-taro. Following the falling of bush it was found that the property was subject to stock sickness; and steps were taken to combat the ts ouble. Mr. Langstone found the meth ods adopted highly satisfactory. ■, Whereas a ftiiv. years ago stock could not be bred oni. the property with any degree of success, it was carrying in November last J 2714 ewes, 4453 lambs and hoggets, and. 783 head of run cattle, besides other sta tion stock. The property comprises i '350 acres. It is probabi 3 that following the Minister's inspectl on the programme of development will; be accelerated. Mr. Langstone 4 s visiting Ohura today. !