SOLOMONS EARTHQUAKE
METHGiDIST MISSION'S LOSS DESTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS Damage amounting to £SOO was caused by very severe earth tremors which destroyed the buildings of the mission station at Gizo, on the island of Tulagi, headquarters of the New Zealand. Methodist Mission in the Solomons, according to a cable message received by the Methodist Foreign Mission Office in Auckland yesterday from the Rev. J. F. Goldie, head of the mission. No one was injured. There is no wireless station at Gizo, and Mr. Goldie would have to wait until a long boat trip could conveniently be undertaken to the station at Tulagi before reporting the damage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 12
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105SOLOMONS EARTHQUAKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 12
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