OTIRA TUNNEL SMASH
LARGEST PALL OF EARTH ON RECORD. Christchurch. June 10. The Otira correspondent of t! i■ ■ “Press” telegraphed this evening sta: ing that about 12 o’clock last night the cracking of timber gave the miners in the Otira tunnel warning that a large fall of rock was going to take ]'!■ ■ . and to escape to place of sai 't;. quickly. Shortly afterwards the timber gave way, and there was the biggest fall of earth that has ever taken place in the Otira tunuel. The fall is about four miles in from the Otira end. and it icstimated that it will take three or four weeks for the miners to clear 'it. This | is most regrettable, as great headway j was bciug made under the contract system.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 11 June 1920, Page 3
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