NATURE'S RESTORATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17438, 9 April 1931, Page 2

NATURE'S RESTORATION

BETTER QUALITY LAND MURCHISON 'QUAKE AREA A remarkable improvement in the piality of the hind in the Murchison Ijstrict since the big earthquake in I'tme. 1920, was noticed by Professor I. Speight, Curator of the Canterbury Museum, during a recent visit to the listrict, states the Christchurch Press. 'rofessor .Speight, who is Professor of feology at Canterbury College, visited ho Murchison district a month after ho earthquake, and he did not see the ountry again until recently'. "It is a very great surprise to me o see how wonderfully Mature Ims rettored the country that was shattered >y the earthquake," he said. "Many >f the biggest slips arc now difficult to ind, especially where the rock was •ovcred with sand and mud. In many •ascs the pasture is much better than t was before the earthquake, and I Jiink that in a (c\v years there will be cry few visible signs of the earthjtiake damage itself. Of course, the lilltops are still shattered and every low and then additional material is irought down by minor shakes." The professor said that though minor ■arth tremors were still felt, the couiiry was rapidly reaching a condition of tnbility. There was a fairly severe •arthcpiake about a month ago, the esideuts stating that it was about the hircl in intensity since the big one in ftine, 1920.