SLIPS IN TARANAKI
TRAINS HELD UP.
NEW PLYMOUTH, 4th April. Slips on. the line south of Hawera tor night held ut> the mail train from Wellington to New Plymouth. The train was pulled iip by a small slip: on the line, and when it was being removed a huge slip- came down and made the blockage of the line complete. Then another slip fell at the rear, completaly hemming in the train. ' A small slip crashed against the mail van when the train wns stationary and lifted the front bogey off the line. No one was hurt." Afterwards more slips fell on a half-mile section of the line. .
- Endeavours were made to get the passengers to a relief train "on the other side of the slips, but this plan was held up by slips.on the main road,'preventing motor-cars getting through. -. ■; It is raining heavily, and the plight of the travellers is an unpleasant, one. It was not known at a late hour tonight how soon the passengers would get .away, but it is expected they will reach New Plymouth; to-morrow morning.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 13
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181SLIPS IN TARANAKI Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 13
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