PAEKAKARIKI HILL BLOCKED.

Shannon News, 13 June 1924, Page 2

PAEKAKARIKI HILL BLOCKED.

UNNECESSARY DELAY IN CIJEABING MOTOR "TRAFFIC HiDLD UP. A Levin motorist .reports'that--when earning' dowui toe Paekakariki Hill vesterdav afternoon, lie*'*'found toe vo-dd blocked by a. .slip. Five other cars were already held up. The Levinite learnt that" toe slip catne-down between £3O .and 5 p.m'tf justs vafter the men had ceased avoW for the day. It. occurred near toe bottom of the hill, about seven minutes walk from Paekakariki, at a point where a gang ted been working during the day. Efforts were mode to induce the men to start clearing the fallen eartf\, but. there was nothing doing in that direction. The himst'li was -told in one" quarter thai the men to whom- he~ applied had nothing to do with it as it was a contract job. One oi"the overseers went out of his wtiv to. report the slip, but he did not succeed in getting toe workers on the job. Eventually the motorists g6t 'permission to fackle toe work themselves, with tools belonging to the men. In 20 minutes they had cleared a passage sufficiently to allow the waiting cars to pass after an liour and a half's delay. The motorists naturally made some very caustic CiOJiimeiute "on ; toet inaction displayed. The Public Works Department stated lasjt night toat ths road will be blocked'to traffic until at least noon to-day.