SLIPS AT OHAWE
ER-OSION BY SEA. The weather during the last few days has been boisterous and cold, with fairly heavy seas (writes our Ohawe correspondent). On Thursday and Friday the southerly gale, the heaviest for some time, was the cause, as reported in yesterday’s “Star,” of two big slips on the cliffs facing the waterfront, some thousands of yards, of soil coming down. The slip at the extreme end of the native reserve, better known as the basin, consisted mostly of loose clay and papa, and is gradually being washed away by the sea. At the same time it has caused a very bad encroachment towards the basin, and unless some immediate action is taken the outlook for the present sandbank is serious. It is fast being washed out by the seas at high water.
The other slip, which is just behind the bathing sheds, is also a very heavy one, some thousands of yards of heavy slate papa falling and causing a great encroachment in the rear of the sheds. For some time this corner of the cliff has been eroding, and it seems that the removal of the sheds to some safer locality will bo necessary. Meantime the locality is being closely watched.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 April 1931, Page 4
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206SLIPS AT OHAWE Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 April 1931, Page 4
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