Helper reluctant to stay home, worry
■ Elaine Hawthorn sorts through crockery and bottled fruit in the welfare centre next to the Edgecumbe Cosmopolitan aub; • • ‘i Goods have been sent in by people from as far away as Cromwell. ; Jfce oV reckras people who went through the earthquake have seen enough chipped and shattered plates to over jars of beetroot when she passes on the packages. People quake struck. Elaine Hawthorn says her work serves a double purpose because she still can’t bear to be ■.vat. home.' .
“I don’t want to go home because I, was there when it happened. I was in the lounge, and the earthquake threw me into the dining room. I won’t stay there on my own now.”
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Press, 11 June 1987, Page 37
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