AVALANCHE OF EARTH.
MUSTERER'S STARTLING EXPERIENCE. NUMBER OF SHEEP AND CATTLE BURIED. (By Telegraph —Press Association). GISBORNE, This Day. A landslide, 60 acres in extent, in the Te Arai Valley, gave a startling experience to Claud Gordon, who was working sheep on it. Gordon had dismounted from liis horse and walked about, a hundred yards, when what he described a.-: a wave of earth broke over him. He was carried downwards and nearly choked by dry clay. Struggling to keep his feet, with a desperate effort he managed to reach the side of the slide, and, falling over a small cliff, got on stable ground. Gordon reached home much bruised and battered, and in a state of collapse. The land on which Gordon had left his horse and another horse had completely disappeared, but some hours after the upheaval had subsided the horses were discovered partly embedded. It is doubtful whether they can be rescued from the morass.
Sixty sheep and seven cattle were also buried in the slip, beneath thousands of tons of earth. The Rae River was dammed for about 30 chains.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 August 1928, Page 5
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