MENACE OF PEAT FIRES
STEPS FOR PREVENTION
PROPOSED BY ENGINEER
Point ing out that .the usual rninibrr of destructive peat fires had occurred during the year in the Hauraki Plain s district the chief drainage engineer, in hi s annual repur' to Parliament, renews his proposal tb"L as a moans °i' prevention the peat areas should he constituted fire, districts.
- The engineer, states that firo in the KaihoVe district burned ahoitfc 300 acres of grassland a.nd 250 acres of planted flax. “The fire district principle,” ho adds, “lias for many years formed tin important feature in the protection of forests, and similar protection is absolutely essential for flax production. The experience this year ha s shown, shown conclusively that grassland." is not free from the 2re me.T)*e».’ 1 1 ,
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 8
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