A celebration of Guy Fawkes Day is blamed for extensive damage- of a native forest jn tfie’Tauranga district. A report of the mischief is given in the following letter received from a resident of Oropi by the Forest and Bird Protection Society:—“A huge fire started on Guy Fawkes Day on the seaward slopes of Otanewainukn. It made the clouds a bright scarlet for a. mile around. It was still burning on November 7 when I went to Tauranga and endeavoured to get the local paper to investigate. All the bush from the Oropi main road to near the Waimapn is new hlack for at least haff a chain in. Could not the powers that be- stop this sabotage?”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 November 1939, Page 2
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