SERIOUS PLANTATION FIRES.
Per Press Association. • ASHBURTON, Jan.. 28. . For three days the county has been the scene of the most serious plantation fires for rears. AH the available men were called to combat the flames. At Punawai the county plantation caught fire yesterday, the damage being estimated at £ISOO. After several hours’ fight the flames'were subdued, but a north-wester to-day fanned them and another £IOOO damage was done. A fire at Fairton to-day, started by a traction engine, destroyed several county and private plantations. _lt threatened the Fairfield freezing works, all the employees of which were engaged in fire fighting. They stopped the flames within three chains of the works. A call for aid was received from Marawhiti to a third outbreak spreading from a. sawdust dump ignited on Sunday as a result of the burning of an old house, which was attributed to swaggers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 50, 29 January 1932, Page 3
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146SERIOUS PLANTATION FIRES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 50, 29 January 1932, Page 3
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