LOSS BY BUSH FIRES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15234, 22 February 1913, Page 7

LOSS BY BUSH FIRES.

B£tlEF FUND INAUGURATED. ': DiJIAGE IN HA WEE'S BAY. ■ , ; . • ■• . I -Hi potMC meeting appointed committees ■stb -report on the loss sustained by set-I Hlers in the Wellington- district from bush j •fires, with a view to alleviating any j ousting distress. Recording to a Press. j :CAssociation message a sum of over £100 j if Was subscribed in the room towards the j 'relief fund. _ l<- Settlers in the districts in Hawke s '"Bay affected by the bush fires have, "in many instances, suffered heavily. I'-ta' most cases no accurate estimate ph.* ! 'the losses . sustained, lists been compiled but a Dannevirko p"per pub- ; lishes the following list in connection with fires in its immediate district:— '' Bus Boa : Francis Gratwick Yarreil, I fear-roomed cottage, insured £75. Arthur Maxwell yarreil, new four-roomed house, Conveniences, whare and . trapshed, feed I »nd fencing 5 house insured for £170, trap- ' shed £10. and cowbail £15. Stanley Bert - fairbrothor, iive-roomed house, furniture, outbuildings,, feed, fencing and about •eight tons chaff; house insured £250, furniture and personal effects £150, cowbaij. £40. Richard Henry Fairbrotbsr, threeroomed' cottage and contents and all outW buildings; insured, £50 on cottage and fijGSQ on contents. George Waller, three- ' roomed cottaga and contents, feed, and '■fencing; insured, £75. W. Waller, new cowshed and outbuildings, nearly all feed and fencing; no insurance. Donghi Bros, lost a 'stable, cowshed, and trapshed, the estimated loss, £110, being covered by in/rsurance.. John Sullivan, stable and contents, valued £60. W. Morris, cowshed, fetid and fencing; covered by insurance. la addition to the foregoing there was a eossideraWe number of stock destroyed. ■s losses at Upper Piri Piri are reported ag orders inder and Fortune, house and ; sc3 f of furniture lost, trapshed, milkdied, wash-house, and haystack destroyed. sfo insurance so far as is known. Wright '- ! Bros., six-roomed residence damaged, calfli shed destroyed, and separator -in house. Covered by insurance. F. A. Fierabend, , ;sheel> lisL D. Murphy, lost <iboufc 20 •'.sheep- J. Aylward, six-roomed house and ■'. furniture j insured, £105 on house, £130 furniture, £75 cowshed, £15 calishei, £8 ' rirtsty.- In addition to the foregoing, every eottler in this locality reported less of stock and feed. In; & letter to the Mayor of Duuievirke Governor (Lord Liverpool) expressed • : Jos sorrow at the trouble caused by the Inajj £rs3 in this district. : ' :„•.'• • r rr-rrz