BIG SCRUB FIRE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WHANGAREI, This Day.
Fire threatened the Puketi State forest, adjoining Mangamuka, yesterday. An "outbreak in scrub and gorse, fanned by a high wind, swept towards the edge of the bush, but forestry officers and others prevented the fire spreading. Five hundred acres of gorse and scrub were burnt.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 18, 23 January 1939, Page 10
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