IN GREYMOUTH
APPLICATIONS FOR BELIEF
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GEEYMOUTH, 26th June. A sharp earthquake causing renewed alarm occurred at 10.39 to-night. Several vigorous shocks were subsequently felt. ; ' .
The Belief Committee to-night received about 160 applications for relief. There being only about £500 local funds available, the committee limited the grant to about &5 each for certain necessitous jases where widows and families lack breadwinners. County cases were referred to sub-committees. In cases of Government mortgage houses, it was decided to ask the Government to capitalise the damage, enabling it to be paid off in the same way as the mortgages. The majority of the applications . came from Blackball. The Town Hall tower lias to be pulled down and the walls ■ at either end of the structure strengthened, according to the decision of an architect who to-day made an examination.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 148, 27 June 1929, Page 14
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