Landslip at Queen’s Wharf 1890

The angle at which new Queen’s Wharf (nearest the camera) was positioned after the landslip ‘did not argue well for its safety’.
Fortunately the steamer Pacific had departed from the wharf servicing the Sanitary Plant when a landslip occurred somewhere around 6.30 a.m. on the morning of 7 February 1890, an event which followed a period of heavy rain that had caused a number of landslips along North Quay.