RESTORING WESTPORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 721, 22 July 1929, Page 9

RESTORING WESTPORT

LITTLE MONEY SPENT YET RELIEF, NOT RESTORATION Press Associations WESTPORT, Sunday. A rough estimate of the damage to private property in Westport and some of the surrounding districts, excluding Lyell, Inangahua Junction, Duller Gorge, Fairdown and Sergeant's Hill, is £82,000, yet the payments made in this district, including that to Seddonville, total jinder £I,OOO. In face of this the Cemtral Committee has put its money into the general fund so that it may be put out at interest. Application forms are being forwarded by the Central Committee for people to fill in. They regard this as placing the whole question of relief on a charity basis and not on a basis of restoration, as intended by the generous donors of the funds. DAMAGE INSPECTED VICE-REGAL PARTY’S TOUR MINOR SHAKES OCCUR Press Association WESTPORT, Sunday. The Governor-General Sir Charles Fergusson and Lady Alice Fergusson made a tour of Denniston, Granity and Seddonville yesterday. In the evening Lady Alice was the guest of the Plunket Society and the Mothers’ Union at a social,' at which she gave an address. Their Excellencies then left for Tiro- | roa, 13 miles from Westport. Only minor shakes occurred at Westport today.