PROTRACTED JOB,
CLEARING HUTT ROAD "SLIDE."
It is now about six months since the big landslide descended l on the Hutt Road, and tho clearing away of the spoil—a work upon which gangs of men have' been- constantly engaged ever since—has been no easy. operation. Truok-load after truck-load hn-s been dispatched with its clayey freight from the scene of the slit), and still the earth
continues coming 'down. ' ■ ' The end of the work is, however, in sight, and now that the base of tho cliff has onco more been reached all that remains to bo done, saying a third bulging out of tho cliff, is its razing to a safe angle. A chute erected some months ago is constantly .diseorging loads of spoil to the trucks: Formidable barriers and an aiming of brushwork havo,been.erected round the base of the chute as protection to the workmen 'from boulders which are constantly bounding down.. : The stuff is being transferred by trucks to tho : reclamation works at Thorndon to aid In the recovery of valuable land.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1870, 2 October 1913, Page 7
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173PROTRACTED JOB, Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1870, 2 October 1913, Page 7
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