PREDICTING EARTHQUAKES.
,STATEMENT AT MEETING OF SURVEYORS. (By Telegraph—Pres3 ns.-puoia.tion.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 28. A statement that earthquakes could be predicted was made by Air. F. G’. Robinson. F.R.G.S., and Dr. Coleridge Farr at the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Dr. Farr said that there was a duty to humanity to carry on with precise levelling, so that a prediction would be aided. It was decided: “That the institute press upon the Government the need for geodetic levelling between the east and west coasts of both islands, and also for a gravimetric survey of the whole Dominion, to be commencedl under the control of the Lands and Survey Department.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 28 August 1929, Page 5
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