EARTHQUAKE RELIEF.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20158, 10 February 1931, Page 13

EARTHQUAKE RELIEF.

TO -TM. «ditok or i** rßi;3a ' • si r —It takes time to l'ealise the \ fnll magnitude of. the Hawke's Bay ■ disaster, the hopelessness ot the losses, - /' and the difficulties of New Zealand, at ' b e present time in giving adequate "r toucial assistance to the stricken Through the Government we l ' -X all assist, but a State whose 1 „«> alreadystiumed to break•Tnolnt; can oi& g»'c liberally if ing P°'"-| f -+he country are pre-" ' the f!l Orifices. to " da - v pared to m CQgh Wl th which* to have the J ■ on ] y gj ve t 0 others help, n , ' jgjiy ourselves. 11 will if we mtq tn -p S to the pictures, jttean a fewle^ te r i and l less to _ less petroll, soc ; a i a)l d sporting bacco. „t,;„h hare grown by custom events, , a 8 a business, could t ° b or suspended a -iLnotated towns will have to rebuilt properly. So warnings the P ast V ! . n ' c £. one surely this time y -.N^ubkB 1 oroof construction will be 6 fS aid enforced. Reconstruct - some form of uuiubl assistance, over a Jeriod of, say, 'three years, will be. n6 lnsumice authorities, state-that they ;■ ' mil admit no liability, but surely ui such a crisis as this, can this be so.' 1 "lYe know insurance. losses have been tpvv liigli the last few years, but we • hare heard whispers of much greater losses in most.-other businesses. Per* ' haps we "could all forgo part of our «< annual premium rebate for several ' ■ rears, contihge/it. -of course, on the ' ■" insurance companies making some w definite,sacrifice themselves. No doubt , Unemployment Board will give " -literal ami practical assistance m - restoration work. —Yours, etc.. ; - PATRIOT. • * ( . February 9th, L 931. !i #f A i,'