“One of the best object lessons on erosion may be seen on and near a hilly public path of Kelburn,” says a Wellington member of the Forest and Bird Protection Society. “This path, which connects two main highways, is a short cut used daily by thousands of people. There seems to be a doubt about the responsibility for maintaining the path, which is on the Town Belt (the property of the citizens of Wellington). Anyhow, it is a kind of ‘no man’s land’ in the view of the City Council. The wild rains work their will on the clay surface. A channel has been gorged out and one sees erosive forces in miniature. There are slips occasionally on an adjacent bank, but the long-suffering pedestrians take these as a matter of course. Gradually the path is becoming a gully"
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1940, Page 5
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