SLIPS ON WAIST LINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18685, 15 April 1924, Page 10

SLIPS ON WAIST LINE.

CLEARANCE OF DEBRIS. MUCH STILL TO BE MOVED. In xsixajkxnu owk coEMsroNcaaT.] ' ~ PAEEOA, Monday. The work of clearing away the large slip on the Paeroa-Waihi railway line has been pushed ahead as much as possible, but the workmen have been considerably hampered in their work by further falls of rock from the cliff above the slip. Men have been kept on watch 1 all the time to give warning to those working below when there is any movement of earth or rock overhead. Some huge boulders have come down* , I

. The line has been sufficiently cleaned to allow trains to pass, but there remains a huge quantity of debris yet to be moved. It has been estimated that at least 2000 tons of rock and earth have been shifted., The opinion has been expressed, that the department; will have to remove a great deal! of title overhead cliff before the line will be .safe. * This it is understood is to be done immediately. Now that the flood waters have receded investigations reveal that', except to railway property very little damage has been done. The land in the river "ponding area" on the Paeroa-Waihi Road, has been coated with a layer of mining silt and the farming area in Pereniki's Bend, also a ponding area, has suffered' in the same way. The remainder of the ground areas are very little the worse for the 'flood. ''"'-'-■