EARTHQUAKE AREAS
— -< j • •,> . > WORK OF REHABILITATION. FINANCE INADEQUATE. SUGGESTION FROM HASTINGS. ’ ' 4 (Per Press Association). HASTINGS, March 12. A meeting of about eighty Hastings business men roundly condemned the Prime Minister’s proposal to make a preliminary loan of a million and a half for the restoration of earthquake damage, and passed the following resolution: “That this meeting of representative citizens of Hastings resolves that the proposed scheme of finance for rehabilitation of the devastated area in Hawke’s Bay Avould be absolutely inadequate in amount and"unsatisfactory in operation', and that the scheme propounded in the ‘Financial News’ of February 30, or a scheme on similar lines, would more likely meet the case, and that a committee ibe ‘-set up to demonstrate to the Government the relative merits of the “ two schemes.” /•■■ The second of the schemes is that drawn up by Mr Jull, M.P.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 129, 13 March 1931, Page 5
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