EARTHQUAKE HAVOC.
ROAD DROPS 60 FEET. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WESTPORT, Saturday. A representative of the Westport who has visited Lyell, says nothing hitherto written has adequately described the ■colossal earth movement of the earthquake. In one plaice the road has moved out 25 feet and dropped 50 feet, carrying with it all telegraph posts. The rock formation is rent and torn and has descended the hillsides in rivers of rock, some portiops of which are of immense size. Beyond Lyell there is a landslide 60 chains in width. Mr C. F. Schadick, county engineer, who has been through the Lyell and Karamea districts, brings back a similar story regarding earth movements there. They are colossal.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17805, 2 September 1929, Page 6
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