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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 60, 6 February 1931, Page 5

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PEOPLE FROM HASTINGS When Dr. Will Gordon and Mr. L. R. Curtis returned to Stratford from Hawke’s Bay they brought with them Mr. Curtis’ sister, Mrs. G. Clark, Mrs. R. F. Malfroy, and her children, Barbara and Jules, and Master Happy Stratton. t All are uninjured, and Mrs. Malfroy considers that she and her family are fortunate to have escaped, as they lived on the bank premises in the business area of Hastings. The children were at school at the time of the shake and suffered no harm there, but they hgd to make their way home through a bewildering tangle of debris and had some difficulty in locating their home. Her back lawn was the salvation of Mrs. Malfroy and of others in the locality. Her main impression is that the shake pitchforked her. out on to the lawn, rather than that she walked there. She went through a flood of water, which came from a massive tank which crashed down into the kitchen. The family spent the night under a tentfly on the lawn, but, naturally, thf children were the only ones who slept. There was such a, violent shake at 9 p.m. on Tuesday that it was decided not to endeavour t o sleep in the house.