CLIFF FALL TRAGEDY
iIURY'S RECOMMENDATION
PERIODICAL INSPECTIONS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) \ NAPIER, 14th May. ~* Measurements made to-day show thai 1150 cubic yards, or 16G0 tons, of material, chiefly limestone rock, came down in the fall from the Bluff Hill cliff-face last evening which killed Mina Clare Kauter and Douglas William Bmt. • Of the total quantity rather nior« than one-third fell on. to the road and footpath, completely blocking the thoroughfare with a pile up to ten or twelve feet high and for a length of thirty feet.At an inquest into the death of the , victims before the acting-Coroner and a jury, at which a verdict of accidental death was returned, the jury added a • recommendation that the local body or bodies concerned should appoint some competent person to report from time . to time on the condition of the cluff, in view of the heavy traffic using the Breakwater road.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 113, 15 May 1930, Page 11
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148CLIFF FALL TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 113, 15 May 1930, Page 11
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