AT GISBORNE
DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS GISBORNE, This Day. Hardly a store in town but Ims .sustained some damage. A portion of the wall of the Gisborno slieeplarmers’ grain store fell into the f,lreel, completely wrecking one ear and damaging another. Collett’s motor garage fared badly, the root falling in on top of the showrooms and .smashing several cars displayed there. In all the crockery establishments heavy breakage is reported. Mrs Fisher’s fruit shop in Gladstone road was partially wrecked by (lie fall of an adjoining wall. At- Hall’s building in Peel street the parapet fell, smashing the roof in, and one large beam. No one appears to have suffered bodily injury, though several people fainted in the streets. The telephone girls remained at their posts till l.oltl to leave, and then inarched out like soldiers.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 February 1931, Page 5
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