FIRE SPREAD BY GALE
AREA NEAR TAIHAPE SETTLERS' ANXIOUS TIME [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] TAIHAPE, Thursday The Taihape district suffered heavily through the gales of a few days .ago. Settlers at Taoroa, to the east of Taihape, had an anxious time when sparks from a log started a fire. Several of the settlers were up all night- owing to their woolsheds and homesteads being threatened. • It is sometimes customary, when a dead ewe is found in the lambing season, to sot fire to a dry log and burn the carcase. The gale sent tho flames and sparks from one of these fires from log to log, and through tho brush for miles before burning out. The mortality among 6heep was heavy and fences were considerably damaged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21597, 15 September 1933, Page 10
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