WASHOUTS AND SLIPS

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28471, 28 December 1957, Page 10

WASHOUTS AND SLIPS

Road Conditions Near Bealey

A photographer seeking flooc pictures on the West Coast yes terday travelled with an Auto mobile Association patrolman ii a utility vehicle, until it wai halted by a slip near the Beales Hotel. He then returned by foo and by motor-cycle to get hii pictures to “The Press.” Reporting on road condition! motorists would have experiencec if they had travelled in the area the photographer said that at thi Cass river the A.A. vehicle hat! to stop because of a bad wash* out. Water up to 2ft deep wai across the road for more than 100 feet. Further on the road wai in good condition until the Waimakariri river, where the roa< was completely washed away fol more than a quarter-mile. The utility vehicle ploughed through this with water leve with the bottom of the doors. At Poplins, near Cora Lynn, i slip 20 feet high and more that 20 yards long, blocked the road The vehicle was driven up or to this but bogged at the toj where a dozen men dug it out. A6-wheel drive truck crumblet the approach to a bridge at Broat Stream, near the Bealey Hotel but left enough room for thi smaller vehicle to get across. Another slip near the Beale] Hotel halted the vehicle ant forced it to cut across water filled paddocks until the hotel wai reached. The photographer walked bacl to Cora Lynn and from hen travelled as a pillion passenge through drenching rain until hi reached Springfield.