VICTORY FOR SCIENCE
MOVING HILLSIDE HALTED • RAT7AVAY PROBLEMS Science and man-power have conquered in. tlif struggle which for years hindered progress on the South Island Alain Trunk railway line. Fur years the engineers in charge of the work there faced a serious menace from- shifting sands on one side and a huge moving hillside on the other. These sand dunes, running along nearly ’JO miles of the coast- north of Kaikoura. and a shifting hillside in the same section, known as the Blue Slip, ■worried the engineers right from llie days when work was first started on the line.
|}y the excavation of thousands of tons of material and the laying oL drains in the Him* Slip, and the extensive planting .of marram grass on the sand dunes. former ditficulti.es have been overcome.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 44, 15 June 1938, Page 3
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133VICTORY FOR SCIENCE Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 44, 15 June 1938, Page 3
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