FIRE IN BAINESSE
200 ACRES OF PASTURE AND FENCES DESTROYED. dUectrH Telegraph—Press Association PALMERSTON N., February 15. A cigarette butt carelessly thrown into a gorse bush on a property in Bainesse was responsible for more than 200 acres of pasture and many fences being destroyed yesterday. Twenty-one men fought the flames for a considerable time, checking their onrush just on the edge 01 a peat swamp on Air D. C. Cook’s property. Had the fire reached the swamp it would have burned for weeks and probabTy reached as far as Alangawliata.
The outbreak occurred on Air J. Cornfoot’s Bainesse property and spread with great rapidity through the dry tinder grass, which is unusually long in this locality. Despite the efforts of the men, the fire swept the countryside as far east as Pyke Road, leaving a blackened trail behind it.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14069, 16 February 1939, Page 5
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