MANAWATU GORGE BLOCKAGE
ADOPTION OF NEW METHOD Dominion Special. Palmerston North, November 16. Explosives will now be used to remove the concrete retaining wall below the railway line in the Manawatu Gorge, and which has further complicated tfie long stoppage by cracking for a considerable distance. A visit to the gorge was paid to-day by Messrs. F. J. Jones (chairman of the Railway Board), W. R. Davidson (chief engineer to the Railway Department), and G. J. Robertson (assist-ant-chief engineer), who inspected the landslide. / They ascertained that the wall is fissured for a distance of sixty feet, and that in consequence another slip of large dimensions is threatening. In addition to the explosives that the officials decided' should now be used, water will be directed on the higher portion of the slip.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 4
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131MANAWATU GORGE BLOCKAGE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 45, 17 November 1926, Page 4
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