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HUTT RIVER EROSION TRACK SHIFTED BACK (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Erosion by the Hutt River at a point south of Belmont endangered the main railway line and it is being shifted back eight feet. The trouble started when the major flood had passed its heighi and the river was falling. The bank begar r to crumble about 4 a.m.. the river taking a huge bite of 20 yards across and six feet in, bringing the line three feet from a straight drop. Ti a flic was stopped, the passengers on the 7 o'clock train being transferred. By 11 a.m. the track naa been shifted back three feet and trains were passing but at less than walking pace. Work in getting the track back >s still proceeding.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 7
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