SLIDING MOUNTAIN.
MENACE TG NEIGHBOURING VILLAGES.
THEIIt EVACUATION ORDERED.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph
Copyright.) —United Service). Received 1.5 p.m 1 . to-day. LONDON, July 24. The Geneva correspondent of ‘'The Times” states that the authorities have ordered 1 the immediate, evacuation, of several villages in Tagfio Valley, whither the mountain Motto- Albino, five miles from Berlingoma- and 3600 feet high, is slowly sliding. The mountain’s unstable composition was known in 1888, but the movement was only recorded in 1925, when d,t was noted that signals at the top had moved twenty inches .since 1919. The mountain covers one and a quainter miles and measures 569 million cubic feet. The summit has moved 69 inohejs and! subsided 82 inches .in 36 years. It is now sliding much faster, and in some places equal to six yard. s ,a year, with a tendency to increase.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 July 1928, Page 11
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143SLIDING MOUNTAIN. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 25 July 1928, Page 11
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