GREAT LANDSLIDE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5488, 23 March 1910, Page 2

GREAT LANDSLIDE.

MAORI VILLAGE W||(|jg I

SOPPING INTO LAKE«i*iiL ?wO.

TAUPO. M»nk^ The Star correspondentfoL? ll further particulars of i)^ J^^i An alarming landslide o*^ the settlement ( ,f Waihi vm* inoin'npr, when the I hUlsi«w2^* the village bogan lo bodil v ti:^* 1 * ami it then forced its w«J,£*N lake, carrying wh. t res, h««i« *** everything in its track. rJv J** slide ha* now sprm<t out J?" three chains into tho lu^. .*■**' A-ater. "* w *•» Unfortunately,.the natlv^l^*. tie wumiiifi, a.nd one of tttoT** Tnmaiwhana. was killed, an^u** were injured thrt>us*fr the faUj^T 81 bris. The hill is still .sliding *?''. natives n re hurrying aw ' , «i Wiviiiii viliapc.ysnhoM etoert whole r.ltvce to bo demolished * It »s only a thort dista^ t^ where th? other menwrable U^S? occurred in M H r c h. ig4o »*Z^ village of To Ra|>u ed by a landslide, and aQ Iltf habitants were killed. excertiLT who escaped. One of the kit-*' the mother of Wi Tiuni*)^** killal in this slide. The natives are in a grett », of excitement, and are humij^ with their household good* eapirta from what they HnpendinK doom of the bca'utiiulra lago of WaihL , * Wnihi- is at fhixall Native «^ abo^it a mile 'itai tJjc Westwuri Tj Toka;ain.u, .on tho shores tof I*S\f po. It is the !ioadquarter» "of ? Heuhou Tuhinoi a celebrated ing chief of the Ngatituwhane AUCKLAND. Maitfc" a Further particulanj <* t^ w, slrde nt WuHhf -show thatjT,,,^ na, ivniong others, was malting- • wild rush f o r safer ground, «]^ ' lig 'boulder, struck bhnand t^^ him down. He recovered Wa^lm rrnewed his fftß'ht, hut the \ u^, tfw landslip o v ertoi»k h4<n. mdh few seconds he was d\-cnihelM The last seen of him «vas tft ba dangling out of the slushy vii/\ jxnmtg woman nuined Hok 0 ir.iinagcd to get cloar li'om tl^ M of tho slide pnd then sankuj*. less. She was removed to mldtf, j, the mass pitched into the bb t tidal wave rose sorno JO feet m sweipt to the oi>posite Fhom i^ some chiklren were playing, wito' swept oil their feet *fct »(n rescued by adults with aftMrtl enlty. All the boats and CAftottg th? fake were washwl «L«By{^ih natives 'all left the rilliqp kin. fugod at Pakawn. The slip iUffa 1000 Tvt flb^;^■e the lake Iwt^ t mile and a h^Uf f^tjir tho Ak.

Walls ?.r* out «itt of tbp .raiatn 200 feet dopv. The debris cAtjffe road from ToWaanu to Wflft£J