EARTHQUAKE RISK
Safeguards in Wellington (By Telegraph-Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 16. Unanimously the Wellington CityCouncil decided to bring down at its next meeting special by-laws providing against earthquake risks. These are to bo based upon the report of the building regulations committee set up by the Government and in the meantime permits are to be refused for the erection of buildings deemed to bo unsafe from an earthquake point of view. Steps are also to be taken to ascertain what authority if any the council has to compel owners of buildings to remove dangerous parapets.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 80, 16 March 1934, Page 6
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