DEATHS IN EARTHQUAKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20827, 20 March 1931, Page 13

DEATHS IN EARTHQUAKE

LIST OF THE* MISSING.

POSITION STILL IN DOUBT.

MANY UNIDENTIFIED REMAINS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION'.] NAPIER, Thursday.

The list of those reported as possibly killed in the earthquake is a comprehensive one, but after full police inquiry, it has been decided that many people included in the list cannot be said- to be authentically missing.

The total of the unidentified still remains at 26. It is believed that many bereaved families who are fully convinced of the death of relatives have not reported such persons as missing, with tho result that while 26 is the total of tho unidentified, only eight people are definitely known to be missing. Their names are:— Michael Baker, an English tourist, staying at the Masonic Hotel. Miss Kelly, visitor, also at the Masonic Hotel. Mrs. Ada Mary Walshe. Herbert Arthur Dennett. Miss Ellen McEvery. Miss Sybil Florence Wood. Miss Joyce Taylor. Thomas Ryan. All except the first two belonged to Napier.

BUILDING LESSONS.

CONSTRUCTION SAFEGUARDS.

OPINIONS OF ARCHITECTS.

"I am forced to the conclusion that many men in, prominent private concern! and in public positions went moro or less into a Jitate of, panic in their condemnation of the class of buildings erected in the earthquake area, and the unsuitability of the materials used in their construqtion," said Mr. J. Park, vice-chairman of the Not' Zealand Institute of Architects, in an address to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday on " Building Construction in the Light of the Recent Earthquake." Mr. Park added that while there was no need of panic, the building owner in future would realise that quality and not quantity niusb be his first consideration on the capital available, and would also appreciate»the wisdom of the proposal, to frame "Dominion by-laws governing the construction of buildings. After dealing exhaustively with the nature of the effects produced upon buildings by the earthquake, Mr. Park said one of the needs of the future would be to see that buildings were 'securely anchored to the soil in which they were built. The chief movement to be feared was horizontal, and to meet this it was necessary that the building should be on a secure base. An additional safeguard would be the incorporation of bracing by diagonal girders wherever practicable. r extra cost of making such buildings earth-quake-resistant would range from 5 per cent, to' 7 per cent, for office buildings, the addition being slightly more for buildings of long span and great height. Brick: buildings Were not capable of withstanding heavy earthquake vibration, Mr. Park concluded. Either steel-framed buildings or reinforced concrete buildings should be erected. Provided the construction was honestly carried out and the best materials were used, ho believed the reinforced concrete building, owing to its cheaper cost when compared with structuraksteel, would predominate in the Hawke's Bay area," and would prove all that was required. *

FURTHER DONATIONS.

; THE HERALD FUND. The following lontributions to> tb# New 2leai.and Herald and Auckland News earthquake" relief fund have been received:— .'£ 8 d Amount previously t cknow--1 edged X 13,670 17 • Wellsford District Subscriptions 63 3 5 Tangowahine School Picnic Fund •• .. .. •• 20 0 0 Resurisam •• •• . . 10 0 O. Ellerslie Presbyterian Clruch (final contribution), £6 2s 6d; Auckland Ladies' Golf Club, i'B: No Name and Friend, ill each; Karno ischoolchildren's penny, subscription. 15b 7d: Sympathiser, 2s 6d. . Total to date. £13,778 0s 9d.

DONATION PROM HOBART.'

PROPRIETORS OF TATTERS ALL'S.

[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON* Thursday.

Tho Mayor, of Wellington has received a cheque for £SOO for earthquake relief from the trustees of George Adams, Limited, of Hobart, proprietors of Tattersarl's.