PEAT COUNTRY ABLAZE.
SPREAD NEAR TE AROHA.'| ______ ■-Sfl WORKERS' (BUSY WEEK-END, [BY TELEGRAPH.OWN COE.HXSPOIIBNT.J §| TE AROHA. Monday. ;|f] Swamp fires are still raging in and around this district, and as a cons©. quence dense smoke is covering th«'.|f| country as far as it- is possible for the J | eye to see. The continued dry spell irfjfj doing much to assist these fires in their iff progress, especially so in peat country' l o | A email clump of blackberries, which'f|| was lighted about the beginning of !>»• IS cember, on the properties at Herxies- 0! ville, Te Aroha, recently acquired by ?|| Messrs. Mackie and Sons and J. Lottjjhlin for subdivision purposes, found it?"M : way into the peat country, and evidently 0% smouldered away, gradually spreading '0 until Friday last, when a breeze am:|§i it into flames. The fire travelled rapidly £|p| through a blackberry patch and the peat, a! on the opposite aide of the drain wasjja? ignited. A bee of workers assembled ;ll during the week-end and dug trenches j|IJ around the area of the fire in order to't-Sjr prevent it spreading further.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18631, 12 February 1924, Page 6
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182PEAT COUNTRY ABLAZE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18631, 12 February 1924, Page 6
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