BUSH FIRES DYING DOWN
DAMAGE ON EAST COAST 2000 ACRES OF FEED DESTROYED. WES AND LAMBS SUFFER BADLY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Gisborne, Oct 10. . Though th© gal© continued with undiminished force throughout the night tho bush fires died down and are now confined mainly to patches of heavy logs. The settlers are now endeavouring to ascertain their losses. It is known that 30p hoggets were burned on the Kopua station. It will be some days before the full extent of the damage has been ascertained. Log fires commenced in the Motu and Matawai districts but were quenched by heavy rain which fell this morning. A later report states 1000 acres of the Kopua station and a similar area of Mr. W. R. Tome’s holding were swept by fire yesterday, the feed havbeen cleaned up and miles of fences destroyed. Tlio cattle came through all right, but the ewes and lambs suffered badly. To-day the fires show a tendency to spread towards the coast.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 11
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