Herbert Guthrie-Smith’s book Tutira: the story of a New Zealand sheep station (1921) recounted the history of his farm in southern Hawke’s Bay. Included was a chapter entitled ‘Surface slips’, which described the susceptibility of the soft rocks in the North Island’s east coast to slipping.

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James Hector’s Outline of New Zealand geology (1886) was a summary of the first 20 years' work of the Geological Survey, and included information on landslides.

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