FLAX ON FIRE
LARGE AREA DESTROYED FLAMES TWENTY FEET HIGH (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. More than 500 acres of a 640-acre plantation of flax in the Mungaroa Valley, Hutt County, valued at hundreds of pounds, were destroyed in a spectacular fire which lit up the entire valley and at times there was a vast area of flame 20ft high. The flax is the property of the Wellington Flaxgrowers’ Corporation, Ltd.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23370, 9 December 1937, Page 2
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73FLAX ON FIRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23370, 9 December 1937, Page 2
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