MORE EARTHQUAKES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19485, 15 November 1926, Page 12

MORE EARTHQUAKES.

MORRINSViLLE'S TROUBLES. SLIGHT SHOCKS YESTERDAY. MANY SLEEP OUT OF DOORS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON. Sunday. The people of Morrinsville are still very disturbed on account of the earthquakes and the nerves of both men and women have been very severely shaken. Further slight shocks occurred to-day at 7, 7.20 and 10.30 a.m. and again at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Many people are sleeping and eating out of doors, all brick buildings having been deserted. A number of residents who have friends in other towns left Morrinsville for the week-end. One wall of the Morrinsville Joinery Company's store was damaged and shows stgns of collapse and a support had to be erected. A wall of Mr. A. M. Humphrey's building is also badly cracked. Shocks were also felt at Morrinsville yesterday, one of which occurred at 5.3 a.m. and the othsr at 5.20 a.m., making 14 within 24 hours. Residents were very alarmed during the night and few slept. The doors were kept open and lights burned in most houses throughout the night. It is estimated that from 50 to 60 chimneys were smashed or damaged by the succession of shocks which occurred in Morrinsville on Friday. In one house a baby was sleeping beneath a shelf on which there were bottles of fruit. The bottles were knocked down and only missed the infant by inches. The chimney of Mr. D. W. Jones' house at Kuranui, on the south side of the town boundary, did-, considerable damage to the roof and porch as it fell. At the infant school the Marseilles roofing was smashed and the teachers and children were alarmed by the noise and by the falling tiles. The children were dismissed for the day after tho first severe shock was felt. Serious damage was done to the school house, an old building occupied by the headmaster, Mr. D. R. F. Campbell. The chimneys were shattered, the telephone wires were broken, and the water pipes burst. ANOTHER SHOOK AT TATJRANGA. NO DAMAGE REPORTED. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] TAUEANGA. Saturday. Another earthquake shock occurred at 11.30 last night. No damage was done. A heavy hailstorm at 1.35 this afternoon was immediately followed by lightning, thunder and heavy rain, which lasted for about twenty minutes. Tho weather then cleared. THE 2-TEED FOR SEISMOGRAPHS. WIDER DISTRIBUTION WANTED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Saturday. Dr. Adams. Government seismologist, said to-day that no records had yet been r cived by tho Dominion Observatory of the earthquakes at Morrinsville and, until they were, it was prematutfe to comment on the severity of the shock. He cordially agreed that a more widespread distribution of seismological instruments, as suggested by Mr. C. R. Ford at Auckland, was desirable in the Auckland district. The farther north one went, he added, the fewer were the earthquake centres, and very few earthquakes had been recorded as having Morrinsville as their centre.