RAIN AT OPOTIKI
ANOTHER BIG SLIP MAIN ROAD BLOCKED (From Our Own Correspondent.) OPOTIKI, Wednesday. Late yesterday afternoon another big slip fell from the Waiotahi Bluff, near Opotiki, completely blocking the main highway between Whakatane and Opotiki. The latest slip is about a chain on the Opotiki side of the previous slips. A motor lorry is reported to have had a narrow escape from the falling debris. Torrential rain is still falling, and it is feared that further slips will fall from the cliffs, which are over 100 feet high. Alotor services are using the old route via Paerata ridge, but this is now badly cut up, several cars being bogged last night. To-day it is necessary for cars to use chains to negotiate the road.
It is indefinite when the main road will again be reopened, and floods are expected if the present rains continue.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15
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146RAIN AT OPOTIKI Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 15
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