STORM & LANDSLIDE
0 NEW HOMESTEAD WRECKED IN ADMIRALTY BAY. OWNER LATER SUCCUMBS TO SHOCK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. BLENHEIM. This Day. Following on a terrific storm, the severest in the memory of settlers in the outer Pelorus Sound area, a large landslide swept down a steep hillside in Admiralty Bay, near French Pass, completely smashing the new homestead of Mr Robert Shafron Turner, aged 53, who later succumbed to the shock of the nerve-racking experience. Mr Turner, his wife and two sons, were in the house early on Thursday evening, when the building was struck by the slide without warning. They managed to escape only in time before masses of spoil wrecked the dwelling, which had been erected to replace one destroyed by fire a few months ago. Apparently a flooded creek near the house undermined the toe of the slope, which, saturated by rain, slid straight down on to the dwelling.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1938, Page 9
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151STORM & LANDSLIDE Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1938, Page 9
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