SLIPS AND EROSION ISOLATE WESTPORT
CULLER ROAD BADLY BLOCKED. [Per Press Association.] WESTPORT, Last Night. At the Borough Council meeting tonight it was decided to ask the Ministers for Railways and Marine to take stops to provide for the safety of the Buller bridge which is endangered by serious erosion of the riverbank about tho bridge, this being on the main highway to and from Westport. A number of people who hax’e been stranded here since Sunday oxving to the Buller road being blocked by damaged bridges and slips, arc leaving to-night by boat for Grcymouth. Others bound for Christchurch for the Cup meeting arc leaving overland tomorrow, They will have to travel on foot some of the distance between blockages, cars meeting them on the other side of the slips.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3496, 4 November 1926, Page 10
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131SLIPS AND EROSION ISOLATE WESTPORT Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3496, 4 November 1926, Page 10
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