A BUSH FIRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20538, 12 April 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

A BUSH FIRE.

A thin wisp of blue smoke rises up from one corner of the large bush clearing. Uien another, and another, until the clearing is surrounded on two sides by many small fires. This is the beginning. Within an hour these fires have worked toward the centre combining to form one roaring tumult of flames, smoke and crackling logs. A mighty column of brownish-rod" smoke rises high into the heavens, moving slowly away in the form of an immense black cloud. Sometimes a frightened tui or pigeon may be seen hurrying from the scene of the fire. Thin continues for some time, then slowly but surely dies down. Later on the smoke clears a little and large patches of smoking timber and ashes can be seen through it.

After sunset there is a thick hazo of smoke lying low along the horizon; the fire is now a cluster of twinkling lights, like a village lit up at night time, while the melancholy calls of the inorepork and weka echo through the gullies, as if lamenting the loss of a little more of their beautiful home. —By Norman Ross Sanson, Tapulii, Hukerenui (ago 11.) Original.