AN EXTRAORDINARY SLIP.
FIFfY AORE3 OF LAND MOVED BODILY. i PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Wellington, March 24. | An extraordinary phenomenon oc- j curt ed at Wanga-hu-road, nine mile s east of Masterton, where about fifty aores of splendid hillside land, owned by Mr Donald McKeazie, with a gradient of about one in twenty five, moved Lr- | ward, ousting itself into a ravine below and cu'.tiog off communication between Wangaehu and Mas'erton. The nature of the soil is clay on. p*pa rock, and the caus9 is attributed to disturbance at the base of the hill by the water of the river and constitution of *h" ro»d, assisted by denuditio of*.'e fores', find foliage. Trie v.-lue <if thu laai is estimated from i'B io .£lO per acre. To re-establish tosd communkatioti will cosi £IOOO. A slide of euch proportions during a period of drought is regarded by engineers as remarkable.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 88, 25 March 1902, Page 3
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147AN EXTRAORDINARY SLIP. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 88, 25 March 1902, Page 3
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