Scrub Fire Under Control
strenuous endeavours by workmen from the State Forest Service, the scrub fire which menaced large tracts of plantation near Rainbow Mountain, on the Taupo-Rotorua road, on Mondav. is now under control. Burning-back operations from near the Waiotapu Hotel proved successful, and the fire is now dying down, although still burning back in the hills to the west of the Taupo road
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 5
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65Scrub Fire Under Control Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20136, 4 January 1940, Page 5
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