BETWEEN PATEA AND HAWERA
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\ -Hea^y' riuriScauiecl :slips.'. on/the., jail-: WaX')-lin?rb*etwee.n''IM'okpia'''a'n'd ,' Mafiii-, .'.-'. tahf-yesterdayy:.and !the.-AVellingion-JNew .':. PJ^p,uth' 3e?^teg3l|'was..held-iip.' — Slips ; cameiHowni; v behind as;' r well as sin ■ froiit^ ;' of *th"e-train. " TPassengerkwere''taken' in . cars.llo'l-Mpkqia1,.' wh'efe.'they"i|oined;';a: ■ relief Strain north,, reaching Hawera'. at, 2.15"-this morning. ■ ;' ■'•••■■ ■-.',.■ -.:. '..."■Eye witnesses say. .that. the. landslides •were enormous, the cSuttirigs being badly flocked. ' The railway ■ authorities cart- . not say when''traffic''ban'; be' restored.' .1 Meantime provision ;,has n been'made for '..-■ a motor service ' between ' Jifokbia and, Manutahi, .transferring passengers from ; ' one^-tfain to another. . . The.,, country '. ■where.the/rslip.s occurred: is of papa for- . mation. •'■,' • ■'••■•■ v■: .-■-.-. -.- . ■.■,*'....■ .. ; . In addition, there is a ■washout' about - : forty feet long by thirty to jforty feet ..'deep, the'rail way hanging in-mid-air. .'-■' No one'was injured. . •■■-.'.- - ■ .A small slip rests'against"the postal yarjj'which is undamaged.1 There -were . abqut one hundred1 n^id twenty passerigr i: ' ■' .. :': ■ . VHe'ayy rain.continued .throughout the ' ..niglit'y J..'.but-it'."is,now .fine''with" prospects; ..[ of.jJi^Qiiiinuuig.'so.- „'...., . . '
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 82, 5 April 1924, Page 8
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