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MOVING HILLSIDE HALTED; RAILWAY BUILDING PROBLEMS [BY TELEGRAPH—OWN CORRESPONDENT J CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday : Science and man-power have con* quered in the struggle which for years hindered progress on the South Island Main Trunk railway line. For years the engineers in charge of the work there faced a serious menace from shifting sauds on one side and a huge moving hillside on the other. These sand dunes, running along nearly 20 miles of the coast north of ' Kaikoura, and a shifting hillside in > the same section, known 'as the Blue Slip, worried the engineers right from the days when work was first started; on the line. , " By the excavation of thousands of tons of material and the laying of = .; drains in the Blue Slip, and the ex« ~ tensive planting of marram grass on*, the sand dunes, former difficulties have been overcome. " :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23036, 13 May 1938, Page 8
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142VICTORY FOR SCIENCE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23036, 13 May 1938, Page 8
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