SLIP ON MAIN TRUNK.
AT;sPOT OP RECENT FATALITY. 2y Telegraph.—Press Association.- f Tajhape, Last Nigbt. t A slip occurred on the Main. Trunk" | line on Thursday night at six'o'clock,' J one mile and a-half. north of Mataroa, 1 at the same spot as that 1 which oc- f curred on November 8; when a train 1 ran into the obstruction with fatal re- 1 suits ' f
Th«j present landslide is a continua- ' tion of the previous one. The linVi*. covered for twentv-five yards to a depth: of 10ft. The' express leaVirij* Taihapo was delayed till midnight, and all trains north of. Taihape are sus- ■ pended, except the expresses. Men to clear the line were sent out the same evening, but it will not be.vt* cleared for'twr days. It is I 'said thir>f'| are indications of the whole hillaido moving.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1918, Page 5
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139SLIP ON MAIN TRUNK. Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1918, Page 5
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