HEAVY LANDSLIDES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 244, 12 October 1916, Page 4

HEAVY LANDSLIDES.

WAIMAICA GORGE BLOCKED. .. _ v .......... 0 SERIOUS DAMAGE OX EAST OOASI. . (By Telegraph:—Press *Ttstina.> ■ WHAKATANE* this day. Heavy rain fell on Tuesday, *Mlri»-; 3.4 tin in 24 hours, and resulting in the _ Waimana Gorge, through which the main East Coast Koad passes, being blocked to all traffic from end to end. . The road in many parts "has 'Seen washed away. The county engineer estimates that three weeks will elapse before, any vehicular .traffic can pats. The sides of the gorge are very steep, and water pouring down over tbe loose, friable .'country brought down tug slips,: many of them being sens ia extent. The Waimana *■ River 3s steadily * rising, and, as heavy rain continues in urewera, fears are entertained that much more "serious damage wOl result It is estimated that it will cost £900 to dear away the present damage, ""When we- got into the, German trenches beyond the village of Ponerea/*. writes an Australian soldier, °w«. found -,-•:''. the officers' dugouts to be elaborate otmcerps. _. They were thirty-five -feet. ■'- deep, with stairs, electric light, water V-. service, lined with damp-course, painted white, and panelled. There were, bej»v:;'-.'-.. a piano, and in the_headqua "era dog- ,-: out "a biUiard tahie." Pozieres is now called Verdun Xo. 2." . . , . - The-.other-day the Education Board was very wisely discussing the wisdom of ' fumigating extensively L in'antieipitkm at '-■-. the hot weather, and in the hope, of minimising the" dangers which invariably come with the slimmer epidemics.": Xews . of-another activity on parallel lines has been received from Wellington in, that the Minister of: Public Health hat announced a campaign against the house - l.ii". fly, which is known to be a very dangerous carrier of disease. The active cboperation cf. local authorities is being .-'•;,'-'-: asked for, and within a few days cutblar letters win probably be received from Wellington. The Hon. Mr. Rus- r sen impresses the fact that the destrne- : -tion of-flies.has-become essential to the preservation of public health, and says that, extensive powers are being given to' - local authorities for the destruction of fliesi most especially- in* places where food T is handled. . .*- _-. The inquest relating to the death of ."f Emily Jane Mason, a married woman, - who died at the Auckland Hospital on October 3 last, as.a result, of a fall tram a moving tramcar. was concluded before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S-M., yesterday. William Henry Harvey, the conductor on : the tram, said .that when he went to coHect the woman's fare in Qneen Street '.'"" she was "doring," and appeared to have r taken liquor. When the ear left the stopping-place at St- Matthew, the woman walked from the rear to _c ■-: —ont of the car, but, knowing that aha bad a 2d ticket, witness did not take particular notice of her. He next saw her on the platform, and went throngh to warn her, hut before he could do so the car turned the corner, -and the woman disappeared. . William ___> .'' Butchart, motorman in charge of the •ear, said that when the car was nearisg the Cook Street stop be beard someone v . say .Text stop." He looked round, and, seeing deceased on the edge of the platform, gave a shout of warning. She overb_»nced, » and fell - Wita_s reached ont to save her, and managed to stay her progress just as she reached the.ground-' On getting out of the tram witness found that the woman was • badly'hnrt, and sent for a doctor. The - verdict was to the effect that death was due to iractufe of the skufl and cerebral hemorrhage inflicted throngh beiag '.- """n from tbe platform of a tram—r. . * The Coroner added that no blame was attachable to the conductor or the motonnan. The disappearance of a typewriter from the office of F. E. Jackson's warehouse, inEUiott Street, the weekend resulted in inquiries being put in ths . bands of the. police. Investigations by Detective Hammond resulted in the finding of the typewriter, a brandrnew .; an—Jne, valued at 122 10/, buried in ■*• garden at the home of a hoy who bad been employed by the firm. "After the discovery pf the machine, tbe boy, who was. out on license from an indoaadmitted that, on being d_missed from the firm, he bad taken the typewriter ana buried It in the garden. £?-**» brought before Mr. E. C Cutten, S-M-, thfc »or_ng, «_ a eharge-of theft, and remanded for a week. I The Aody of a man drowned some day* , *g? in the Waikato River was fonhd be- | **c«n WahUcn Gap and Port W__ai* ____*• —quest was neM at W__kn te-day. The body was —"* «a*n*_posed state. s «* .that, wm delight aU is Desert Gold tea. For famirv use the Households —end, 1/8, and Famirr Blend, IA are recommended. Extra '.-pecial grades »* ,1/W and 2/.—(Ad.) ':--.-■ ..' '• ■ __