90 Homes Menaced By Plantation Fire
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Ninety homes in the Pinehaven area of Silverstream and the “bond’ plantation of 200,000 pinus insigms trees were gravely menaced on Monday and yeste.day by a fire which, when finally brought under control by the joint efforts of civil and army fire-fighters, was within a quarter of a mile of the residential quaiter and the trees. The fire began on Sunday afternoon, adjacent to the railroad between the Silverstream station ana a point on the hillside opposite the Silverstream railway bridge. It was brought under control, but broke out afresh. , ... „ Only the most strenuous work on the part of hundreds of fighters prevented the spread of the conflagration that would have wiped out homes and trees worth, in the aggregate, several hundred thousands of pounds.
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Northern Advocate, 19 January 1944, Page 2
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