GREYMOUTH DAMAGE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 21 June 1929, Page 10

GREYMOUTH DAMAGE

ESTIMATED ■■AT-£50,000

(By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) ; GREYMOUTH. 20th June. . The .damage, in Greymouth will approximate.;;£so;ooo. A.'.relief fund has been ;■ opened,' 'the : National' Tobacco

1 Company donating £100 for Greymouth and an anonymous local citizen £50. The Mayor is calling a public meeting for to-morrow to deal with eases of distress and organise reconstruction -work. Country reports show that Lake Brunner on Monday .morning dipped in the centre and then, reacting, shot a column of water into the air. At Tckinga two bushmen saw a crovasso open up nearly- two chains wide and close up again, leaving only a narrow crack. The HoDouu Slucing Company's claim south of Lake Brunner had its face pulverised for the whole length, the debris running a distance of 200 yards from the terrace and covering the nozzles and- plant in places to a depth of 40 feet. .... Shocks have continued here, two last night being; followed to-day by a- sharp one at 10.5 a.m.. ■ . . ■ , The State and Blackball, miners, have decided to work-no more this week owing "to: the danger of pillars collapsing. Mines in.the Brunner district are working. It is noteworthy .that .miners not long from the Old Country were more unnerved by the.shocks underground than these who have been a longer per-, iod in the Dominion It is understood that while earthquake insurance is taken in many, parts, of New Zealand, few if any policies of this naturo exist on the' West Coast. The underwriters warn people that no liability will be recognised where chimneys are merely patched up and fires are again started. ■ . ."...' The " Star" newspaper office has suffered from the continued tremors, cracks extending in the building. People who were on the Franz Josef Glacier report feeling Monday's shock, accompanied by. a rumbling sound..