FIRES.
GRASS FIRES IN THE WAIRARAPA.
Pm Prm» A moo:atioit. MASTERTON. January 10. In common with other centres where drought conditions are prevailing settlers in parts of the Wairarapa Valley are experiencing trying times coping with grass and bush fires. Picnic parties and the Railway Department are the principal offenders. Yesterday, shortly after the down express passed Waingawa, a fire sprang up in paddocks owned by Mrs L. Compton, adjoining the line. Fanned by a strong westerly the fif*e spread over an area of approximately twenty acres. Railway gangers, power board employees working in the vicinity, and passers-by banded together xo combat the conflagration, the spread of which was only arrested when within ten yards of the residence. Several firefighters were burned and prostrated by the terrific strxiggle to the approaching fiames. Owner -of propertv adioining favourite picnic resorts hat's suffered through loss of crops and timber. and are resorting to measures forbidding trespa-is.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17245, 11 January 1924, Page 10
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