HAWKE’S BAY ’QUAKE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11452, 28 February 1931, Page 5

HAWKE’S BAY ’QUAKE

DEVASTATED AREA. SEEING IS RELIEVING. PARLIAMENTARY VISIT SUGGESTED BEFORE DISCUSSION. (Press Association.! NAPIER, Eeb. 27. Commenting editorially on the- coming session, the Daily Telegraph says: “It is hoped that before any d'seussions are entered upon, the Government will nse a special train and bring the whole of the members of Parliament to view the devastat'd area. They will then be all the better able, to' consider the condition of i.ho towns and the predicament of the people.” RUINED BUILDINGS. ARCHITECTS’ ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. MINISTER’S STRAIGHT TALK. (Press Associations WELLINGTON, Feb. 27. In a statement to-day the Hon. W. B. Taverner deprecates remarks attributed in the press to Mr. E. R. Wilson in the course of his presidential'' address 'to the Insftmite or Architects, which reflect upon the quality and cost of the work performed by* the Government architect. Inter alia, he says: “It is a matter for regret that the occupant of so responsible an office, as president of the Institute .of Architects, should have publicly expressed an opinion sol. damaging to the professional standing of the Government architect, in terms so unspecific as to preclude any reply being made in defence, except in equally general terms. “If Mi-. Wilson has real grounds for holding the view attributed to him one would have expected that he would have stated them specifically to the Government in order that examples he must bo presumed to have in mind might be inquired into,” The Minister adds that he had till now withheld comment in the expectation that Mr. Wilson would adopt that course or take such steps _ as •were necessary to correct the injustice his remarks.imposed on the Government architect. BACK TO' NAPIER. SINGLE MEN RETURNING. .) ; - (Press Aeeocia'tion-i PALMERSTON N., Feb. 27. After 1 to-day it is anticipated that all fit' single men will have returned tn NamterG from Palmerston North... They have been leaving the; showgrounds can?p. gradually, the final contingent bavng dispatched to-day, leaving 717 refugees still... m camp.