FIRES STILL RAGING.
PHOSPHATE WORKS' SAVED
(Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assri.) MELBOURNE, March 4. The bush fires are still raging, but by a great effort fire-fighteirs saved) the phosphate works near Mount Plenty.
DELIBERATE!
STARTING BUSH FIRES,
WAGGA, Feb. 22,
Forestry Department officials believe •.-:' that, regardless of the menace to valUiable State forests or imperilling the lives of scores of firev-fighters, and of the awful lesions of Gippsland. new fires are being deliberately started to improve pasture areas in Bago Forest district. New firei start almost , daily. The | situation along the huge front'in the', forest itself is extremely serious. Every available man is at work in an en- ,' deavor to save the huge ash seedling: plantations. One of a number of \
smaller fires which have been started and which are rapidly assuming serious proportion's was stopped with great difficulty from sweeping over Messrs Hardy's, Ltd., Tumbarumba timber leases and sawmills. The fire on the eastern and' northern sides of the Bago State Forest, which was under control on Friday night, sprang up again on Saturday morning. All day on Saturday it gained ground, although there was a big gang of men at work fightin? it on Saturday night. Breaks were made, but the fire gained still further last night. FORESTER'S OPINION. -Mr J. S. Parry, Wagga district forester, on returning from tho Bago,firesaid tho situation of the seedling bell - was precarious. Not only the forests menaced by a big fire, but new outbreaks were continually occurring so frequently and so persistently that it appeared that they were being lit wilfully, most probably for the improvement of the-autumn grass. Careful investigations are being made. .
PRACTICAL JOKE
BUSH FIRES'STARTED
ALBURY, Feb. 34.2 The suspicion that some of the bush fires were started deliberately was confirmed by an experience at Otirnie Creek, oh the Upper Murray, last weekend. There had been five outbreaks in the district within a few days, as a result of which residents made inquiries, and found 'n the last instance that it was due to a .practical joker. Landowners are incensed, because of suspicion that a large proportion of the losses they have sustained has bee" due to either neglect or wilfulness. -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16975, 5 March 1926, Page 7
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