DANGER OF FIRES.
Plantation Superintendent’s Report.
“ We are going to have a bad year, I am afraid,” said Mr R. G. Robinson, superintendent for the Selwyn Plantation Board, referring at the meeting of the board this morning to the danger of fire in the plantations. In the past month, he said, there had been three outbreaks, which, fortunately, they had been able to suppress before any damage had been done. One might have been started from a picnickers’ fire and the others had been on the railway line.
A member suggested that as most of the fires lately had started from the railway line, some steps might be taken in this direction to ensure greater protection.
The fires from the railway lines had been started by sparks or cigarettes, explained Mr Robinson. In burning off, the railway gangers had been careful and helpful this year. They had notified his office on several occasions when they were burning off wide stretches, and he had been able to send gangs of unemployed to assist and protect the board’s interests. It was decided to write to the Railway Department, asking, without making any allegations, that all precautions should be taken in burning. Mr C. W. Hervey reported that the board’s fire risk had been increased from £3OO to £BOO,
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1931, Page 7
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