DAY'S WORK UNDONE
PATUMAHOE FARMER'S LOSS NEIGHBOURS' FINE GESTURE [by telegraph—own correspondent] PUKEKOHE, Friday Nine chagrined men stood helplessly in, a field on Mr. H. Brown's farm at Patumahoe at about 5 p.m. to-day, watching a large haystack,. which they had toiled all day to build, disappear in flames. With it was destroyed a stacker belonging to a neighbour. The stack, which contained the hay from 14 acres, was valued at about £6O and the stacker at more than £3O. The stack had been completed and the men were raking up around it when the fire started. Fanned by, a strong breeze, the flames soon destroyed the entire stack.
The rSen were helpless against the heat of the fire, which enveloped the ironwork of the stacker and even set fire to a near by cock of hay in which the men had placed the hayforks, these also being destroyed. None of the loss was covered by insurance.
As soon as Mr. Brown's loss was known, neighbours made offers of fields of uncut hay to replace his stack, and one of these was accepted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22931, 8 January 1938, Page 10
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183DAY'S WORK UNDONE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22931, 8 January 1938, Page 10
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