DISASTROUS FIRES.
CimISTCIIURCH. January S. Sparks from the engine of the Chi'ist-church-Culverdcn train were responsible for many fins and much damage today at Sefton am! Bilcairn. Crass paddocks were swept, and near Amberley Mr A. Payne lost a- five-roomed house, 30 acres of wheat. LfJ acres of oats, and 15 acres of grass seed, and Messrs M'Adnm Bros. 20 acres of wheat. Messrs Told "Bros.' thrashing mill was savi d only by back-firing. '.I'll" progress of the lire was stayed by the Kovrni Rive . The damage would probably have been greater only for the efforts of a l .! present at the Amberley stock sale. who rushed to the =«-■);.' : :i motor cars and other eonvevanees, and headed the flames off in the middle of Messrs M'Adam Bros.' oats crop.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3278, 10 January 1917, Page 22
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