A BIG SLIP
ON MAIN TRUNK LINE.
CUTTING COLLAPSES
AUCKLAND, Wednesday,
Before daylight this morning a slip of 11.000 tons of earth completely blocked train communication between Drury and Paerata. The landslide occurred in an exceptionally narrow cutting where there were severe slips in 1916 and in 1923.
Rush arrangements were immediately made by the Railway Department and a fleet of taxis, trucks and buses are running between Drury and Paerata, a distance of nino miles, thus conveying passengers and luggage around the" slip. A gang of 70 labourers are at work reducing the masses of clay which had wrecked the line for over two chains.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 2815, 28 July 1927, Page 4
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106A BIG SLIP Waikato Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 2815, 28 July 1927, Page 4
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