PROPPING UP A MOUNTAIN
The alarming report that the Matterhorn, in the Middle Alps, is likely to topple over into an Italian valley recalls a scare which caused some sensation about 20 years ago. There was then everv indication that the Rocher de la Clusette. in the Jura, not far from Neuchatel, in Switzerland, was about to fall into the narrow valley of the .A, re use * If the mountain had dene so, it would have completely blocked the valley and arrested the now of the torrerl on which the neighbourhood depended for its electricity, putting out all the lights and stopping all the trains. Engineers, however, were hurried to the spot They sb >. mountain up with concnw, ana !itis s' i 1 ’ 1 stnndmg.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9027, 5 November 1925, Page 6
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