TEN MILLIONS DAMAGE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 14 February 1931, Page 7

TEN MILLIONS DAMAGE

LATE EDITION

NAPIER-HASTINGS LOSS estimate by builders NAPIER DEATH-ROLL 145. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) NAPIER., Feb. 14. The builders anu architects of Napier, who held a combined meeting yesterday, estimated the damage to buildings in both towns at £10,009,000 The damage to residences is placed at £1,000,000, and the damage to business premises at £9,000,000. The total sum excludes stock, furniture, plant, etc. Another body has been recovered, that o.f Denys Everst Swindell, aged.,lß, which was found in the ruins of the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills building in Tennyson Street. HTs parents live at New Plymouth. This brings the total death-roll to 145, including 26 bodies unidentified. Tomorrow will be observed as a day of rest in Napier, all work except that absolutely necessary, to be suspended.

YESTERDAY'S SHAKE. DK, ADAMS ’ REPORT. / WELLINGTON, Eeb. 14. Yesterday’s big shake was the most A severe of the after-shocks that have followed the big; 'quake and was probably of deeper origin than the main shock of Tuesday week. This the Government seismologist, Dr. Adams, explained would account for it being felt over a wider area and for the fact that it affected the seismological instruments at Sydney to a greater degree than did the previous shock. PRIME MINISTER'S FUND. WELLINGTON, Feb. 14. The Prime Minister's earthquake fund totals £64,948 7s 6d. MORE RESIDENTS LEAVE HASTINGS. POLICE COURT OFFENCES. LOOTING RUINED PREMISES HASTINGS, Fein 14. Though only ?.l Hastings' residents left on evacuation tickets by yesterday afternoon’s train, there were 150 booked by the evening to leave this morning, by which time the total reached 169. Thirty more left Napier, yesterday’s big 'quake having the effect of deciding the minds of those doubtful about staying. Maurice Walsli was ordered by Justices of the Peace- at Hastings to-day to pay £ls in default three months’ imprisonment for stealing goods from the ruined premises of Frank L. Bone and others yesterday. John Maxted and Edward Leathy, fellow workmen on relief, for stealing liquor from the ruins of the County Club were each fined £ls in default three months’ imprisonment.

LONDON RELIEF FUND. £18.692 FOR DOMINION SUFFERERS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Feb. 13. The earthquake fund now totals £18,692, including donations from the Bank of England £IOO, Anonymous and N. Rothschild and Son £260 each, Imperial and International Communications £2lO, British Dairy Farmers’ Association and the New Zealand and , Australian Agents’ Association £lO6 each, the High Commissioner’s staff £6O. SYDNEY GE GOLD-GIST'S ’ REPORTS. Received 1.20 p.m. to-dav. SYDNEY, Feb. 14. 'Sir Edgworth David said that the fresh earthquake shocks experienced yesterday were undoubtedly due to a continuance of the sinking of the ocean bed off the East Coast. Mr Cotton, professor of geology, said that it seemed that the fracture which caused the destructive ’quake at Napier and Hastings had continued to open up further south, causing this second shock. The Svdnev relief fund now totals £613.

DISTRICT RELIEF FUNDS MAYOR’S FUND. £ s. d. Previously acknowledged .. . 457 14 0 Kl. Burgess i 10 0 D. R.ve fy 0 Mr. and Mrs. \Y. H. Barker 2 0 0 Mr. and Mrs. T. Bisohoff ... 10 0 0 Hawera Baptist Church ... 12 10 0 Hawera Brewery Co 5 5 0 Mr and Mrs W. O. Williams 5 5 0 Hawera Hospital Domestic Staff 4 5 0 T. M. GPiemi 2 0 0 Mr and Mrs J. G. McKinnon 2 2 0 Mr and Mrs J. Bootten ... 2 0 0 J.S 0 0 Two Dunedin friends 10 0 0 Mrs. and Mrs. J. France ... I 0 0 Methodist Choir 1 1 0 Mrs. Alexander, isenr 1 0 0 Mrs. W. W. Sutton 2 10 0 Hawera Scottish Society ... 5 5 0 G. Syme 10 0 0 South Tara.. Croquet Assn. 3 3 0 E.E 10 0 Hwa. staff P. and T Office 12 18 6 Hwn. P. and T. Social Fund 5 1 6 W. Thompson 5 0 0 W. H. Younei 0 0 Total £575 7 9 A donation of £2 bv N TT. Gane. of Inaha. was incorrectly show n in the 111 vo rd ale. list on Friday ai r romin" from M. H. Gane.

•H.WVTCR.A STAR'’ IJST. £ S d. Previously acknowledged 4 So 11 e “I9.B.’’ : 10 0 ALr. J{. C. Hay-MaeKenzie .. 10 0 0 Ladies of staff Hawera High School i> 0 0 li.D.U .10 0 Staff of Newton King Ltd., Hawera branch 20 8 0 Proceeds of pig sale given 'by Mr. J. McKay, Mokoia 9 8 0 Methodist Ladies’ Guild and Auxiliary 9 0 0 Mrs. Twaddle 1 0 0 Mrs. J. Stewart 1 0 0 10 0 Air. and Airs. J. Dunlop ... 5 0 0 Total £547 17 6