SIGHTSEERS IN ’QUAKE ZONE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 8 April 1931, Page 5

SIGHTSEERS IN ’QUAKE ZONE

IMPRESSION BY RECONSTRUCTION. VISITORS' TO NAPIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Hundreds of sightseers flocked to Napier again in the week-end, repeating. the rush experience of Friday. The Napier-Hastings Road : was constantly filled with cars travelling in both directions on Sunday and yesterday. In half an hour over 200 ears were counted leaving Napier. The train service and cai's brought further large contingents of sightseers, who spent the day walking the streets of the devastated area or riding in buses to outlying townships such as Taradale and Greenmeadows. The visitors appeared to gain the firm impression that much progress had boen made in the reconstruction ofNapier since the earthquake. They seemed most interested in the community shops at Clive Square, where shopkeepers had arranged attractive displays on a standard quite equal to prequake conditions. Sightseers who had read accounts of Napier being completely wiped out and came expecting to -see the streets ruined and buildings unrelieved by any sign of active business were most agreeably surprised at the attractive appearance of the shops which have been opened and the atmosphere of firm re-estab-lishment which has been produced.