NEWS IN BRIEF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 37, 13 February 1931, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

•QUAKE AFTERMATH. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Edict Postponed. * Owing to the' difficulty of registration, the policy 0f.."n0 work, no food," decidedupon at Napier, will not operate until Tuesday next. - Records Recovered. • f : The' Australian Mutual Provident Society have secured nearly all their records intact in .Napier, and intend to recommence business, on- Monday in Daigety's Building. Refugees at Wanganul. .Over 400 refugees are billeted, in Wa nganui, aiid residents are responding, to the appeal for funds. There are 4.8 v.'.p&trents from-' the affected area in the.'Wanganiii-Hospital." : v Soliciting Disapproved. ; V . It. was ; reported a$ the annual meeting of the Institute of Architects in* Wellington that' sonic architects had gone toVHawke's Bay. .seeking .business. .A motion that the institute strongly disapproves of canvassing for business in auy manner in" the stricken area was carried unanimously. Visit Postponed. , ■ , The Vice-Regal visit to Gisborne arranged" for the "week-end has been postponed until, after the forthcoming session of Parliament. In .view of the national ...emergency, Lady Bledisloe, while deeply appreciating; the courtesy, ,is asking that she should.not be made tho jecipjent of. bouquets on arrival at ; various functions. • ;■ . . Irony of Fate. r • ' The late -Sister Mary Ignatius, who was one of the victims of the earthquake at the convent at Greenmeadows, Napier, was the-daughter of Mr. James Walsh,- of Dannevirke, and a niece of Mrs. P. W. Scally, of Green Lane, Auckland. She was, educated at the Lower Hutt Convent, where she took the yeil several'year's ago. She had been at Greehmeadows only two . days I when the disaster occurred.

Ganneto Safe. i " The -honorary ranger at Kidnappers states that the 'quake did only minor damage. The gannets' rookery has not been affected, except for; a small slip on the northern face. 'He denies that one of the Needles; has disappeared, but asserts that a.piece at the top of one has broken off. •It is • dangerous to a pproacli' the Rookery, as the track has slipped in parts, making the passage precarious from the Grange to the Cape. Looters Gaoled. • • •'' ' ' ' " ' jf. .' V J • For looting blankets, clothing and jewellery at Napier, Peter/John Peterson, aged 50, : and Joseph Lawrence were yesterday sentenced each to three .months' imprisonment with hard-labour. Mr. G. F.'H. Pollock, one of the presiding J.P.'s, 'said the men. had beto guilty of a crime-that could orily be described as.atrocious at such a time. He added that' but" for : tlie ' age of one of the accused-tlie maximum sentence of six months 'would have been imposed. Smoke-oh. . . . i .There is, still a .desperate need for cigarette supplies in the devastated area, according to adviee -received from the field officials .of the Y.M.C.A. Wellington • responded magnificently , to the appeal made there, and it is suggested that Aucklanders can help along the good work .-in the same manner. Slipplies of cigarettes, o.r the cash equivalent, forwarded, to the Auckland office of rthe Y.M.C.A. , will be effectively distributed. • ' " £100,000 Wanted. The sum of f 106,000 will not be .sufficient/ to make good the damage caused - in the Waipu diocese, according to'a. statement by Canon Neild to the General Synod at Christchurcll yesterday. : Synod authorised the trustees of the general church trust to grant £500 for : the restoration of the See House. No assessment for provincial and General Synod expenses will be levied on the diocese in the ■ next ; three years. Tlie ''difference will "be -made up by increases *in the quotas of the other dioceses..' . ... ... j : J • / • Control at Hastings. v Tho suggestion that the Hastings .municipal authorities should take over from-the emergency' committee the civil control of the town was deferred by the Hastings Borough Council at a special meeting. The committee will carry 011 with; a rcduced personnel, and meantime, will continue to function as the authority with full control. It is -announced that the 10 per cent addition 011 unpaid, rates, will .be held over until Parliament meets. The borough elections have' been postponed.