MANY NAPIER VISITORS

Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 8

MANY NAPIER VISITORS

•SIGHTSEERS INTERESTED. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) NAPIER, This Day. Hundreds of sightseers flocked to Napier again over the week-end, repeating the rush experienced on Friday. The Napier-Hastings road was constantly filled with cars travelling in both directions on Sunday and yesterday. In half an hour over 200 cars wore counted leaving Napier. Trains and service cars brought further large contingents of sightseers, who spent the day walking the streets of the devastated area, or riding in buses to outlying townships, sueh as Taradale j and Greonmeadows. I The visitors appeared to gain a firm impression of the progress made in the reconstruction of Napier since the earthquake. They seemed most interested in the community shops in Clive Square, where shopkeepers had arranged attractive displays. The sightseers who had read accounts of Napier being completely wiped out and came expecting to see the ruined buildings unrelieved by any sign of active business, were most agreeably surprised at the attractive appearance of the shops which had been opened and at] the atmosphere of re-establishment which had been produced. *