SERIOUS EROSION
INSPECTED BY/ MINISTER AT NEW PLYMOUTH. BUILDINGS AND RAILWAY BEING UNDERMINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, November 4. “This work is going to be bigger and more difficult than I expected,” said the Minister of Public Works, Mr Armstrong, after an exhaustive inspection both above and below the cliffs at Woolcombe Terrace, New Plymouth, yesterday afternoon. This part ,of New Plymouth is rapidly being eaten away by the sea and the erosion has now reached a stage where a row of houses, timber yards and the railway line are threatened" with destruction. Mr Armstrong said that the details of any preventive measures would have to be worked out by the engineers. His purpose was to see for himself how danger threatened, and to examine the foreshore and thus be in the position of having first-hand knowledge when, in response to the petition lodged by residents in the vicinity, Cabinet came to discuss the situation. It was within the bounds of possibility that some remedy would be found that would last for all time. He was impressed by the gravity of the erosion, the Minister said, and no matter whom the responsibility rested with someone would have to face it. It was no use thinking of postponing protective works; in another five years there might be no homes and no railway.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1941, Page 4
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