Tlie scarcity of firewood m Wellington is at present a source of some anxiety to the householder Mho prefers "the log that cheers" and the open hearth to the coal and the grate. According to the testimony of a witness m the Magistrate's Court on Thursday (says the Post), tenants m suburban sections are cultivating a habit of regarding adjacent fences as legitimate fuel, close and liandy. At any rate the country within easy reach of the city is being rapidly depleted of firewood m the shape of available stumps and logs. "If the demand for firewood is still main, taingd," ,soid a wood and coal merchant to a "Post" reporter, "wo shall have to draw our supplies from the South Island, and tliat, of course, will mean higher prices,, though we shan't make any more out of it." ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11056, 23 August 1907, Page 6
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