SIGHTSEERS IMPRESSED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 9

SIGHTSEERS IMPRESSED.

RESTORATION OF NAPIER

FINE DISPLAYS BY SHOPS,

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. Hundreds of sightseers flocked to Napier again over the week-end, repeating the rush experienced on Friday. The Napier-Hastings road was constantly filled with cars travelling in both directions on Sunday and yesterday. In half an hour over 200 cars were counted leaving Napier. Trains and service cars brought further large contingents of sightseers, who spent the day walking* the streets of the devastated area, or riding in buses to outlying townships, such as Ttaradale and Greenmeadows. The visitors appeared to gain a firm impression of the progress made in the reconstruction of Napier since the earthquake. They seemed most interested in the community shops in Clive - Square, where shopkeepers had arranged attractive

displays, which were quite equal to those of pre-'quake days. The sightseers, who had read accounts- of Napier being com-

pletely wiped out and came expecting to see the ruined buildings unrelieved by

any sign of active business, were most agreeably surprised at the attractive appearance of the shops which had been

opened, and at the atmosphere of firm re-establishment which had been produced.