NERVOUS TENSION

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 10, 11 July 1929, Page 14

NERVOUS TENSION

WAITING FOR THE SHAKES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WO.'STI'OiJT, loth July. "iS'ot so easy as it seems," said a business man interested in a large way in coal mining operations. "Wlia,t. iv'o have to do now is 1o forgrt. all aboHt earthquakes, and get right down to business." Then a big earthquake, came, and the building in which he and his hearers stood roi-ked uncannily for several seconds.

That is ■the condition under which people both in business and their lioincs arc working to-diiy. If a shake, does not ;como for a few hours people are tensely waiting for one. Tlio waiting is very often worse than Hie effect when the shako actually takes place. People are still living in a state of ncr-

vous tension under the impression one minute that the worst has passed, and that only slight shakes will be experienced, and the next finding buildings rocking almost as severely as with the earliest big shakes. .

Besides the early morning earthquakes there were several this afternoon, including a"sustained one at 3.20 p.m.

The Nile, due to-night from Karamea called in at Little Wanganui, and is to leave again for- Karamea, for which port the auxiliary schooner Fairburn u-ith general cargo left early this morning.

Another 120 residents of Seddonville, mostly women and children, came into Westport this evening, and will leave, some for Christchurch and others for Wellington. A good number are goiii" to relatives or friends, and the others to be billeted out. The Salvation Army has transport, and billeting • arrangements in hand.