HOME DESTROYED.
OVERWHELMED BY LANDSLIDE. THE OCCUPANTS ABSENT. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Feb._ 24. 'Loosened by phenomenal .rain “in the backblocks, a landslide crashed down a hill on the West Coast road on Tuesday - afternoon and completely destroyed the residence of Mr Alex Bryson; a roadman employed between Cass and the Bealey. Nobody was in the house at the timci, Mrs Bryson and her two children having left by the express for the West Coast earlier in the day. Had they been in the house they must have been smothered, as when the landslide stopped there was little or nothing to be seen of the building.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 115, 25 February 1937, Page 3
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