Alarming Scrub Fire Threatens State Forest
C Special to "i^Of rthern Advocute”! TAUPO, This Day.
A scrub fire which has been working towards the State forestry plantation at Taupo since Monday, has assumed .alarming dimensions. On the right hand side of the main highway from Taupo to Napier the fire is progressing in a north-westerly direction towards the forest. On the left it had commenced to drive up the slope of Tauhara M6untain but a change of wind to the north-west took the flames more toward the plantations. A fire break two miles in length was cut with the assistance of a bulldozer from the foot of the mountains to the Napier highway. A number of men employed by the State Forestry Department are standing by in case of emergency.
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Northern Advocate, 18 February 1939, Page 10
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