IN MANAWATU.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13635, 19 February 1908, Page 2

IN MANAWATU .

v ~ - Per PresjS Association. PALMERSTON N., February 18. Palmerston North is enshrouded in smoke; so is Feilding. Many settlers' homes in the ranges are in peril. ' The Manawatu river at Moutoa is at a lower level than has ever before been known: " There is only three feet of water at 'the deep places, so the small steamers can no longer get up* Dressed flax is accumulating at the 'mills, and there is danger from &t&. - The millers have put a wire rope across the riverbed, and are sending 206 bales of fibre over singly and carting- it down to Foxton. The Makerua swamp) is being patrolled and all drains are being blocked to hold the water as fire^breakers. , '