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Power boats return to Rotoiti It will be all action on Lake Rotoiti next month with the country’s top power boats and drivers competing at the New Zealand Power Boat National Championships. Photo: Supplied
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Suspicions over Rabbit Island fire Colin Williscroft Reporter
colin@waimeaweekly.co.nz
The cause of last Friday’s fire on Rabbit Island is being treated as suspicious.
Rural Fire Network boss Ian Reade, who is based in Richmond, said the cause of the fire was still being investigated but anyone who saw people acting suspiciously at the eastern end of Rabbit Island mid to late
morning that day should contact police. Fire and Emergency New Zealand Southern Communications shift manager Andrew Norris said fire crews from Richmond, Appleby, Mapua and Brightwater were first
called around noon on Friday to fight the fire, which was in sand dunes near the forest on Forestry Road. He said with the help of two helicopters and a number of water tankers they contained the fire
on the seaward side of the dunes, although there were fears that the reasonably strong northerly wind that was blowing at the time would push the fire into pine trees.
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