AVALANCHE OF ROCK.
A BOATHOUSE BENEATH IT. RESULT, MATCHWOOD. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. C. Aston, of Christchurch, on arriving at Ins cave dwelling at Taylor's Mistake on Saturday afternoon, discovered that his dinghy, together with his boathouse, had been reduced to matchwood by falling rock.
Huge masses of rock, some of the pieces being over a ton in weight, had completely demolished the boat and boathouse. The rock had come downhill for a distance of about a quarter of a mil?, and from a heiglTt of about 700 feet. Apparently it had fallen during the construction of the road at present being formed between Evan's Pass and the lighthouse.
Taylor's Mistake is a bay flanked by high cliffs on the coast between Sumner and Lyttelton. It derives its name from, the mistake of a shipmaster who took it for the Lvttelton entrance.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19260830.2.49
Bibliographic details
Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 6
Word Count
146AVALANCHE OF ROCK. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.