FIRE AT BURWOOD NOT SUPPRESSED.
NOR’-WESTER FANS STILL SMOULDERING REMAINS.
The strong nor’-west breeze stirred up the remnants of last night’s fire at Burwood, and with outbreaks in two or three places at midday to-day there were prospects of another sweeping scrub fire. A few hundred yards down Inwood’s Road, off Reeves Road, the scrub had caught on the seaward side of the road and the danger of a spreading conflagration was imminent. Near and around the Bottle Lake Hospital, which so narrowly escaped the flames yesterday, all appeared safe, though on one corner on the northern side of the property on the Bottle Lake Road some of the ashes were still smouldering. Mr Derry, whose house at the end of Inwood’s Road was threatened yesterday, has not unpacked his household goods from the lorry in which he put them yesterday, fearing a possible recurrence of the fire in his vicinity. On Beach Road there is another outbreak on the property of Mr Florance. Mr Florance had some of his cattle in treecovered country, but he shifted them this morning when an outbreak threatened.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19271, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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