’QUAKE ZONE RESTORATION

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 January 1930, Page 7

’QUAKE ZONE RESTORATION

MID MARUIA RELIEF COMMUTE VISIT Mr. G. C. Black, M.P., accompanied by members of the Murchison Earthquake Relief Committee made a comprehensive tour of the Mid-Mar uia earthquake zone last week. The farms in the Glengarry were visited and also those in the valley up to Harris’s. The party succeeded in taking the first car past the slip at Rogers. Communication is restored up to the Ariki bridge, and the opportunity is now afforded visitors of seeing just what havoc the earthquake spelt to the Maruia settlement and the Murchison district. Certainly there is nothing more impressive of nature in the tourist attractions of the Rotorua district.

The giant slip has overlapped the Duller river in the Gorge, the hillside at Hutchings, the rugged ness of rifted hill which wiped out Homan’s farm, the blockage which has just been overcome at Rogers and the barrier at Gib-'

son’s which diverted the Maruia river through Peacock’s farm. Marked and continuing deterioration of farm lands and dwellings is taking place and it is understood that as a result of the visit the member for Motueka will make representations to the Government and the Central 'Earthquake Committee that an early decision might be arrived at as to the future of the settlement.