LANDSLIDE IN SYDNEY
House On Edge Of Pit (N.'Z PA .-/teuton—Copyright) SYDNEY, April 28. Wakened by the barking of his dog last night, a father of three children went out to the backyard of his home in the suburb of St. Peter’s to see most of the yard crash into a 160 ft-deep brick pit. Fearing the house would topple, he* dashed inside to get hisjtamily into the street as earth kept crikihing. The landslide stopped and the family ran inside and removal most of their furniture to a neighbour's home. The earth began falling again. The family ran to the street leaving behind a bedroom suite and refrigerator in the house, poised above the pit. st; The mart, Mr H Maneell. and. his wife spent the night in a Utility vehicle while the children slept With a neighbour. ;; Today a council officer warned '• the family against re-entering their home and gave Mrs Mancell art urgent letter to the New South tyales Housing Commission, for accommodation.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29501, 1 May 1961, Page 10
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