HUGE MOVING SLIP
WATER RACE THREATENED INTERESTIN G E N GIN EEK IN G 1 FAT. [ Per Press Association.] ASHBURTON, July 19. Slipping country on Surrey Hills has necessitated changing the course of the Rangitata diversion race for a mile and a-half. A slip on the property of Mr. A. N. Grigg, M.P., is a quarter of a million yards and is moving at a rate of an inch a day. The Minister of Public Works, Hon. R. Semple, yesterday authorised a plan whereby, from a safe distance from the slip, water will drop through pipes down to the country 100 yards below the level of the abandoned race and under a 13-foot head be forced up to the hillside. The pipes will be the largest in the southern hemisphere. The inside diameter is 12ft., the shell, in which probably one inch of steel reinforcements will be used, having a thickness of 10 inches. The department purposes to make the pipes at Surrey Hills. Each 10 foot section will weigh 23 tons. The change of plans will not delay the making of the diversion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 9
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