STILL POISED
CLIFF HURLS SEAS BACK Stepping out of the rain and the wind as he arrived at the Daily News office very early yesterday morning, a man shivered, wrung the water from his clothes, and made a portentous statement. "Phew!" he said. "Have you seen Woolcombe Terrace? It may be too late if you don't go now, for the gale is driving tremendous seas on to it." Woolcombe Terrace is, of course, the first part of New Plymouth to disappear in every storm, so he could hardly be blamed for his fears. Strange to say, however, the terrace was still there yesterday. Living up to the fondest hopes of the railway engineers who constructed it, the boulder wall at the foot of the timber yards hurled back the mighty waves with contempt and, apparently exhausted by their vain efforts, they had iw-energy left to demolish the unprotected, cliff further east. So great junks of the clay face are still poised for the plunge that nearby householders expected them to take long ago.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 8
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173STILL POISED Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 8
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