YESTERDAY'S SHOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 10

YESTERDAY'S SHOCK

MINOR INJURIES ; MORE DAMAGE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association-) NAPIER, 13th February. The most severe shake since tho one which devastated Napier was recorded, at 1.30 p.m. to-day. The shake was slow and more gentle than the first, but lasted over a minute. It brought down a further largo portion of Bluff Hill, and caused wal Is in the ruined business area to totter. Several minor injuries are rcpo l-tcd. Several men working in the ruined business area were sent to a dressing station. Dr. Mooro's hospital took a further backward cant. All work of clearing the town was stopped temporarily, but was resumed after a period. There were many narrow escapes Jfrom falling walls and buildings. The whole coast southward was obscured in clouds of dust. Several minor shocks were subsequently recorded, but nothing to cause alarm. Colonso Hill was affected by the l.aU p.m. quake, a fair-sized slip occurring. Telegraphic services and the electric supply were severed for a time, but were restored late in the afternoon. A large number of residents, including a fair proportion of women, returned to-day. The authorities, however, continue to discourage the return of women and children. AGAIN LAST NIGHT. A particularly sharp but short shock was experienced at 9 o'clock to-ni;ght, but the movement was not htravy enough to do any material damage.' Employees of the Napier Gas Company had a narrow escape in th& big quake to-day in the company's Hastings street building. They had just got out'when the walls caved in. The weather to-night is fine, but rain is threatening. The sea is calm.