An engineer who assessed the Ohope landslide that killed a 17-year-old has re-iterated calls for the local council to adopt evacuation procedures. Scientist Dick Beetham, who has since retired, this morning presented a report to a coronial inquest into the death of Hugh Biddle, who was buried under 4m of mud and silt when the steep escarpment above the house he was in gave way following heavy ...
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