NEARLY 2000 TONS

Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 May 1930, Page 9

NEARLY 2000 TONS

BLUFF HILL SLIDE. WORK OF CLEARING. ! (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER, May 14. Measurements, made to-day show that 1150 cubic yards, or 1660 tons-, of material, chiefly limestone rock, came down in the fall from the Bluff lull cliff-face last evening which killed Anna. Clare Kaut.er and Douglas William Barr. , Of the total quantity rather more . than one-third fell on to the* road end 4 footpath, completely blocking the thoroughfare with a pile up to ten or twelve feet high and for a. length o. thirty feet. Gangs have been engaged all clay in clearing the spoil, and are continuing in the hope of making a passage for one-way traffic late to-night. At an inquest into the death of the victims before the acting-coronei and 1 a jury, at which a verdict of accidental death was returned, the ju rv added a recommendation that the'local body or bodies concerned should appoint some competent person to report' from time to time on the condition of the cliff, in view of the heavy traffic using .the Breakwater Road.