SEISMIC DISASTERS
THE RIGHT PERSPECTIVE. Though the earthquake was serious enough for its victims and sufferers, and calling for real sympathy and national generosity in providing immediate Telicf funds, it is the plain duty of New Zealanders to look at the upheaval aud its results in the right perspective. In the past score of years or so many countries have been shaken badly by earthquakes. The following table, covering seismic disasters all over the world since 1906, shows in chronological order why there has been no justification for hysterics in this country, and also where there is more reason for gratitude than for grief and sensation :
Valparaiso .. .. • Kingston, Jamaica .. . Sicily and Calabria . Lives 3.500 . .. 1,100 3,000 T.-. „„ . .. .. 5.100 200,000 . .. .. 100,000 Keiv eZaland (1929) .. .. 15
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 8
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124SEISMIC DISASTERS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6946, 27 June 1929, Page 8
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