SMOKE FROM THE TARARUAS
BELIEVED TO BE A SIGNAL WELLINGTON, This Day. ~ The Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Office kst night received the ■ following message from the postmaster at Rongotea:. "Mr Stringer, foreman of the State "Forest Service, reports; that / amoKe is issuing from the Tararua ' ranges, approximately behind Levin, and is apparently a signal, and not a bush fire.'* ■, The postmaster at Rongotea supplemented hi» message to the G.P.O. with the following;:—"Mr Stringer reportsthat the fire, is apparently in the foothills 42 degrees magnetic bearing from the mouth of the Rangitikei river. He . feel* certain it is not a bush fire."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 7
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