CABLED REPORTS OF EARTHQUAKES
to :k.: iiiito?, or inr r.-iti-s. Sir.—The Government acted wisely in preventing panic earthquake news from reaching England again. When the last Wairoa earthquake took place I was in London. At midday from a bus windqw in Oxford street I saw the headlines of an early edition of an evening newspaper: "Earthquake rocks New Zealand. Bridge destroyed at Wairoa. Furniture tossed into the air." etc. Two ladies were sitting in front of me. One of them scanned the headlines as I did and remarking casually to her neighbour. "That place will go" under some day," went on with her conversation.
j Doing anxious and not knowing how much to believe. I went straight to JN'ew Zealand House, where I saw a copy of the cablegram sent there. I found that the headlines were greatly exaqgernted. Sending such messages round the world with a loud-speaker does not improve matters and it certainly docs make it hard for New Zealand" to borrow in the Home markets. —Yours, etc.. COMMON SENSE. M-.rch IT. 1934.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21117, 19 March 1934, Page 9
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