Landslide Wrecks House; Owner Dies
IPC, Press Association. Copyrights BLENHEIM. This Day. Following a terrific storm, the severest in the memory of the settlers of outer Pelorus Sound, a large landslide swept down a steep hillside in Admiralty Bay. complexly smashing the new homestead of Mr Robert Sharron Turner, 53, who later succumbed to shock from the nerve-wracking experience. With his wife and two sons, he was in the house early on Thursday evening, when the budding was struck by an avalanche of earth without warning. The parly managed to escape just before the masses of spoil wrecked the dwelling, which, had been erected to replace one destroyed by fire a few months ago. It is thought that a flooded creek near the house undermined the top of a slope and caused it to slide straight down on to the dwelling.
In the next bay, Puketea, three houses occupied by Mr E. Guard and his two sons wore also . in the line of the storm, and it is understood, although the news has not yet been confirmed, that one house was washed out to sea. Another is reported to have collapsed, and a third to have, been buried beneath the rocks.
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Northern Advocate, 16 April 1938, Page 5
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