WORK ON BLUE SLIP
Filling To Drain Off Water
Work on the Blue Slip a tongue of viscous mud which encroached on to the main highway between Blenheim and Kaikoura last November. has reached the stage where it is hoped that there will be no repeat of previous flows of the mud. said the Christchurch resident engineer of the Ministry of Works <Mr A. M. Peart) yesterday. He said that the toe of the slip had been bulldozed away and porous aggregate had been used as back filling to drain off the water from the mud.
After a serious slip about five years ago, stone gabions were used to try to keep the slip back from the road However, when the slip began to move again in November the stone gabions were pushed out on to the road and. as they are expensive to install, they may not be used again. The Blue Slip becomes fluid when there is heavy rain in the area.
Iron Causes Fire.— An electric iron left switched on started a small fire in the laundry of the senior nurses’ home at Sunnyside Hospital about 450 pm vesterday A unit from the Central’ fire station and one from the Sockburn sub - station attended the fire, which caused only slight damage.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29754, 22 February 1962, Page 14
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