An empty farm workers' house is "buggered" after it was ravaged by fire this morning.
Emergency services were called to the rural Tararua property, which was well ablaze when they arrived.
"The house is a total loss," Eketahuna senior fire station officer Brent Dickson said.
Nobody was in the single-storey house on Mangaroa Rd, east of the town, at the time.
It's surrounded by a shelter belt but a neighbour across the road saw the flames and called 111 just after 10am.
