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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 December 1925, Page 9

A Press Association message from Sydney reports the death, from heart failure, of Mr. G. L. Scansie, a prominent Auckland merchant. As a. result of a recent earthquake, mariners were within an aee of losing the services of the Cape Campbell light, writes a Blenheim correspondent. The experience of the keeper who was on duty serves to idustrate the severity of the'disturbance. The lighthouse, which is a 90ft. steel tower, mounted on a solid base of 70 "tons of concrete, was swung from the perpendicular by the force of the earthquake, until it was leaning over considerably. This interfered to the supply of gas to the lantern house, and the light faded to a sickly yellow and was on the point of being extinguished when the tower resumed its normal position. The keeper is a seaman, and he had never felt an earthquake before. A gang of miners driving a. tunnel through the rock at Benopai, on the hydro-electric works, also had a. startling experience. When they were working at a distance of about 125 feet from the entrance a loud rumbling and the heaving of the rock led the men to believe that the tunnel had codapsed,_ and that they were in danger of being entombed. With one accord they downed tools and made a rush for the open air. Whitefaced and shaking, they had been out: of the tunnel for some minutes before they realised that their terrible ex.peri-1 ence was due to the earthquake, which shook the whole district.