ANOTHER SHAKE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 10

ANOTHER SHAKE

HELP FOR KARAMEA

URGENT NEED FOR RELIEF

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WESTPORT, 27th June. The earthquakes have been fairly quiet since early morning, but at 8.35 to-night thero was a heavy and prolonged shake, which will help to make another uncanny night for residents. Earthquakes are much easier to face in daylight than in the dark. Electrical storms, with interludes of hail, have been taking place most of the day and night. The Buller Biver is in flood. It is carrying with it to sea an unusually large quantity of timber, adding, colour to the reports from up country of hills having been cleared by big landslides down to the river. Three slips wjiieh may take a week or more to clear have come down on tho Buller : Reef ton road. Passengers and mails got through by a detour through Walker's swamp land. The work of the demolition of the big P^ost Office building is Contributions to the relief fund received by the Mayor (Mr. Hark-ness) included £1000 by an anonymous donor. ' As the Moth aeroplane, which has been standing by in Westport to assist Karamea,is under instructions not to leave from there to-day, Messrs. M. M.Lean, chairman of the Buller County Council, who resides in that district, and who came by aeroplane on Saturday last with Captain Burrell and Mr. G. C. Black, member for the district, have decided to walk to Karamea, via Corbyville, which they hope to reach to-morrow night. They have handed the following "statement to the Press: 'Murehison and Karamea are the two districts that were most affected by the recent disastrous earthquake. Thanks to the splendid New Zealand manhood that stepped in and organised matters there that centre has been practically evacuated. Karamea and its eight hundred men, women, and children, are in a different plight. The aeroplanes arrived in Westport on Tuesday afternoon of last week, and the Moth did not come to Karamea until the following Friday, when Mr. M'Leancame out. It returned on Saturday with serum for the diphtheria patients. Since then there has been no communication with the settlers, and on Sunday there were, two big shakes that decided the Murehison committee to get their people to Nelson. We desire to protest most emphatically at the lack of organisation which has led to this sorry state of affairs, and appeal to all New Zealand; to' remember Karamea settlement in the matter of urgent relief. The Prime.Minister's message to the people here and the £200 which he has provided for immediate relief is the only bright spot in Karamea's history of the past eleven days."