EARTHQUAKES.
CAN BE PREDICTED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 28. The statement that earthquakes could be predicted was made by Mr F. G. Robinson, F.R.G.S., and Dr C. Coleridge Farr at the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Dr Coleridge Farr said that there was a duty to humanity to carry on with precise levelling so that the work of prediction would be aided. .'ltjwas decided “that the insttiute press upon the Government the need for goedetic levelling between the East and West Coasts of both islands, and also for a gravimetric survey of the whole of the Dominion to be commenced under the control of the Lands and Survey Department.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 230, 28 August 1929, Page 7
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110EARTHQUAKES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 230, 28 August 1929, Page 7
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