ROAD CLOSED BY SLIPS
Rimutaka Route To Wairarapa (New Zealana Press Association) MASTERTON, Dec. 11. Slips and wash-outs on the Rimutaka highway near the summit has closed the only direct route from the Wairarapa to Wellington indefinitely. Motorists now have to go north to Palmerstop North—a 180-mile journey instead of about 50—to reach Wellington. The slips occurred on Saturday after heavy rain on Friday The mam washout is on the Featherston side of the summit where about three chains of the gup y Way has disa PP ear ed into a Ministry of Works gangs are blasting the hillside in an effort to reform the highway. Another big slip also occurred nearer the summit. Communications between the Wairarapa and Wellington were broken when telephone lines were = ar "? d awa y by the slip and all Wellington communication with Gisborne, Napier, and Dannevirke was also broken temporarily. Repair gangs restored the lines today.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29385, 12 December 1960, Page 16
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