POWER FAILURE
Darkness for about: a quarter of an hour, caused-by'a failure in the power line at Pah'autariui.: did not make] things easier for those withpui torches handy. It iwas caused by a "clamp, parting, and the line 'falling.- on f. the tower, 'thus earthing "it." An .endeavour is always made to keep the'iight on duririg'an earthquake, so as to. avoid accidents, and there was no: intentional cutting off of the power, as "quite a number of people imagined. ,/.. -. .. ': ~.
Though a few minor'-.slips fell,-chief-ly in country: areasV all-the• roads in the Wellington district we're open for traffic .today. .The Paekak'ariki Hill rodd-is-.open again after being-closed for several days to clear ;a -big slip.
The Public Works Department states that while thei'e were-small, slips, locally they were soon cleared and nQ further damage of. consequence was done to road bridges in the Wairarapa; The Rimutaka Hill road is open., '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1942, Page 6
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148POWER FAILURE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1942, Page 6
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