Kitchen Filled With Clay Porridge

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 6

Kitchen Filled With Clay Porridge

LARGE SLIP INVADES ISLAND BAY HOME Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 27. One of tho most unpleasant accidents that could happen to any household was experienced by Mr. and Mrs. J. O ’Hagan, of 102 Derwent Street, Island Bay, to-day, a large slip at the back door flooding their kitchen with semiliquid clay and covering most of the rest of the house right through to the front door with clayey water. The house, which is of one floor with a high basement below the front, is on a hillside westward of the tram terminus ami it was the bank a few feet behind the house and directly opposite the back door that collapsed. Pieces apparently began to fall early this morning, the occupants of the house then hearing noises, and the greatest bulk fell at about six. Clay porridgo and vegetation filled the back yard and the spoil heaped itself against the wall of the house and burst in the back door. It flooded the neat little kitchen and poured filthy water into the front part of the dwelling. No structural damage was done to ,the house, a twelve-year-old building, but' tho drainage was disrupted. By nightfall the clay had been shovelled from the kitchen and the water drained from the other rooms by tho expedient of chopping holes in the floors, but about a hundred cubic yards of mullock remains to be removed from the awkward position behind and alongside the building. Mr. O’Hagan is the owner of the house.