. "Evening Post" Photo. Heavy damage was done to the Ngahauranga Gorge highway this: morning when a slip blocked the mouth of a culvert and diverted the flood waters on to the roadway. Quarter of a mile lower dowr the gorge the water ate into one of the larger fills on, ivhich the new highivay is built, and within half an hour thousands of .cubio. yards had been carried away. Some chains of the outer roadway .disappeared in a chasm 60 feet deep.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 5
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82. "Evening Post" Photo. Heavy damage was done to the Ngahauranga Gorge highway this: morning when a slip blocked the mouth of a culvert and diverted the flood waters on to the roadway. Quarter of a mile lower dowr the gorge the water ate into one of the larger fills on, ivhich the new highivay is built, and within half an hour thousands of .cubio. yards had been carried away. Some chains of the outer roadway .disappeared in a chasm 60 feet deep. Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 5
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