MANAWATU GORGE

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 6

MANAWATU GORGE

REMOVAL OF THE SLIP. GOOD PROGRESS BEING MADE. Further blasting 1 ' operation*. as fl menus to assisting in the work of removal of the threatened landslide on the Gorge railway line, have been proceeded with during the past tew days with a very fair measure ot success.

The task which faced the, workers proved to be of greater* magnitude than was at lirst thought, but, following the destruction of the concrete wall at the foot of the “creep,-” which in itself presented unexpected difficulties, the path was cleared for more expeditious sluicing operations, the water for which is now being brought by pipe from a fresh intake high up on the hillside beyond the second tunnel. With the increased pressure row available the? work cl' loosening Jito great earth “creep ’us being expedited, while the. improvement in the weather should have th© beneficial effect of consolidating the upper portion of thei hillside. Although Ihe railway authortiies have on occasion been temporarily inconvenienced by small falls of earth, the present landslide is the greatests that has been experienced in the past eyars.

Mr H. W., Beasley, district engineer, Wanganui, is camping on the site of the job in order to personally superintend operations.