STORMS AND 'QUAKES
WESTPORT'S WEEK-END
COST 01-' RESTORATION ■ v (By Telegraph—Press Association) WESTPORT, This Day. Over the week-end the weather has been very bad and a series of, electrical storms occurred, with spveral 'quakes in th e midst of them, the worst .ones during the night. • ■;•'■ ; "s ■ The position so far as Seddonville.Js concerned is unaltered. An examination of the big dam shows that it i 5.75 feet high and about 25 feet of the- top came away, leaving a bank of 50 feet still standing. When the flood broke through part of the big dam it carried away minor dams down the river,'except ono about a mile above the township. Men left at 7 a.m. to cut a ti'ack up to the big dam, and explosives will be taken up to blast away the"'dams when the river is low. Mr C. F. Schaddick, engineer of Iho County Council, Who ret'ir.ied fi'Mii Karamea, reports that the-inland re-id Jias been wiped out and v/iH'never bo used again. He estimates, the cost of county restoration work in and- about Karamea at £20,000. .... ■..:..:''.' Except for one family Corby vale "has been completely evacuated. ...!.-'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 15 July 1929, Page 5
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