Haast, Otira roads open after slips
Greymouth - reporter The Haast Pass and Otira Gorge highways were . reopened to traffic yesterday morning after slips caused by heavy rain. The Haast Pass was closed from Sunday until Ministry of Works and Development staff were able to clear it [just before 9 a.m. yesterday.' ■ Work on the slips on Sun,'day was curtailed because of I the danger of falling rock.. I The Otira Gprge route was i closed during the might by ■slips at Jacksons.and at the Wallace’s Point bridge on the gorge, but'it. was reopened at 8 a.m. . ; ! The -heavy rain in South [Westland.- on Sunday moved 'north overnight, and people [who had had. a fine day in I Greymouth on . , Sunday awoke yesterday morning to 1 thunderstorms.. ■ \ The rain was so intense, in ■ the mid-morning that motor,-! lists were forced to use theirheadlights. • The district. engineer .of the Chief Post Office in Greymouth (Mr . D,, C. . A. • ■ • Ci 1 1 ’ * ? " •
[Eddy) said that the rain had [caused nothing untoward in (telephone communications. [The engineer-manager of the West Coast Electric Power ■Board (Mr R. C. Western) I said that line fuses-had been [blown at Awatuna, Kumara, iDillmanstown, Inchbonnie, and Cobden.
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