NO WAY OUT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 10

NO WAY OUT

FIRE BRIGADE TO RESCUE

Great inconvenience "was caused the occupants of No. 158 Oriental Bay Parade when a big slip, starting from the top of the steep face below the Redemptorist Monastery, came down-in the back yard. A washhouse a little distance up the hill was carried down and flattened in splinters in the yard under many tons of trees and earth, and was

driven against the back of the house, forcing some stairs in the yard out through the only exit to the Parade by a side passage. It was necessary for the Fire Brigade to remove the residents by the use of a ladder. The debris piled high up on a window facing the yard, but strangely the glass in the top sash, though forced back out of position, was not broken. Fortunately there was little of value in the washhouse, except some portmanteaux and cases of books. A gable of the monastery, containing a statue of the Saviour, looks down on an enormous scour out of the hillside.

Another devastating slip, also in steep ground, whfch was almost on the line of a natural watercourse, occurred at 19 Rewa Road, Hataitai. Here the edge of the house shows above a slip some forty yards long, which has destroyed a picturesque old garden. The spot is at the head of a recreation ground on the Evans Bay Road.