THE FLAX AREAS.
danger of locomotive fires
(Pres s Association Telegram.) PALMERSTON N., Jan. 29. The Chamber of Commerce to-night pasfeed a resolution protesting to Mr. Hiley, general manager of Railways, against the Department not having a proper system 'of patrol of the flax areas in the North Island, thereby jeopardising an enormous acreage of valuable country. Fire broke out on Mr. S. Seifert’s swamp at Tokomara to-day. Between forty and seventy acres of flax were burned. It is surmised that the fire -was kindled by. a spark from a passing locomotive.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4460, 30 January 1917, Page 5
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