Menace Of Wairere Stream Erosion
The menace to Wairere Street and section frontages by the continued erosion of the Wairere Stream was mentioned by the fore-man-engineer, Mr C. D. Molesworth to the Whakatane Borough Council. He said that the worst section extended for a distance of about 80 yards where the road narrowed from 36 feet to six feet.
The cost to build a boulder wall would be about £SBO. To do this work the present power poles would have to be removed. For electric wiring of this area Mr Molesworth said that the electrical engineer had suggested underground cables.
Scheduled airline planes are taking off or landing within the United States at the rate of one every seven seconds. X X X X Steam locomotives in the United States are diminishing in number because of a pronounced trend toward using Diesel' locomotives or> American railroads. Many of the steam locomotives are now being cut up for scrap.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 23, 19 April 1950, Page 5
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158Menace Of Wairere Stream Erosion Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 23, 19 April 1950, Page 5
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