ESCAPE FROM AVALANCHE.
FORTUNATE MOTORISTS. LARGE SLIP IN FRONT OF CAR. THAMES, April 1. While Mr A. E. Leggett, with several passengers, was motoring along the Thames coast between Tapu and Waikawau, a strange booming noise near at hand caused him to instinctively stop his car. A moment later several, hundred tons of earth .fell in an avalanche down a steep hillside and across the road in front of the vehicle, blocking the highway to a height of 20ft. A gang of Thames County Council workmen, with the assistance of a dozen motoring parties, cleared the road for traffic. Recent heavy rains have made the clay portions of the Tapu-Mercury Bay road unsafe for motor traffic. The Thames-Coromandel Road is in splendid order, while the Coromandel-Mer-cury Bay Road is standing up well to an exceptionally heavy Easter traffic season.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 8
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139ESCAPE FROM AVALANCHE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 8
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