CHEAP FUEL FOR WINTER.
FIREWOOD WASHED ASHORE r 1 During the storm a week ago tremendous quantities of wood were washed ashore ~ at Ot&ki. The long expanse of, beach there was heavily littered with wood, and • residents secured a great supply; for the winter. All i bands carted: the wood away in all sorts I ol: S vehicles, and ; the harvest was a rich one. Even now much good fuel ' remains along the sands. . v.. v,; "■■ " /It is 'thought that; the; wood ; came j from ■. the Wanganui River, having, been carried out to sea by flood and washed ashore miles «outh of the place where ;it entered ' the sea. ■ ":■'■: -Some"years 1 ago x there was a ; r v rather : similar occurrence at Lyall Bay, Wellington, following on a heavy Southerly • storm, and for days afterwards carts were busy making away with the cheapest fire : ; ; wood that had been obtainable in the city lor many a day. • ■ V :^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18706, 12 May 1924, Page 12
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