LAND SUBSIDENCE
During an address delivered at the Rotary luncheon in Palmerston North, Mr. A. Seifert asserted that land in the Makerua district was at a lower level than it was some 40 years ago, and this he attributed to earthquake action. The drop, he said, approximated Gft, and while no timber could be seen in those days* now stumps could be seen sticking through the land surface at many points. Mr. Seifert added that there were unmistakable evidences in the district that there had been three forests which had grown successively in the area. This had been proved when a drain was being cut in the Tokomaru area some years ago. It seemed to him that there was evidence that the ( whole of the district had, at one time,, been a forest, probably of white pihe.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 26 November 1941, Page 6
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137LAND SUBSIDENCE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 26 November 1941, Page 6
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