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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 9

The Wanganui Harbour Board this week considered a report from Mr. G. .; A. Lee, consulting engineer, and also j proposals by the chairman for the d(J-> velopment of a deep-sea port. The fqr*fS tner, which advocated the raising of a.,-% loan, was “received.” The chairman's report also recommended that a loan of \ £200,000 bo raised as and if required ' for the purpose of (1) raising the molesjA' (2) extension if such is warranted, andJ’f (3) the purchase of an up-to-date ger plant and works to be taken in hand : in the order named after July 15.

That the origin of earthquakes In |ew Zealand is in pressure to the shore line of the Dominion front <2 the subsided movements of the floor, of £ the Pacific Ocean is the opinion of Pro* lessor Sir Edgeworth David, of Sydney,' as stated in an interview published in Vj the Daily Guardian. Professor David. » was a member of the Shackleton 1907-09 expedition to the Antarctic, and in that capacity made valuable .contributions -y to the storehouse of scientific know* ■ ledge. “Earthquakes,” he says, “aro caused by cracks forming in the earth’s crust along zones where great masses arc being set up by movements, usually. of the ocean floor, along where a great, ocean is bounded by a land shore Sir Edgeworth recalls that in the severe New Zealand earthquake in 1855 the shock developed into an actual track starting on the north side of Cook Strait, 40 miles cast of Wellington, and travelling, 90 miles inland. “Practically the whole of the shore line of the Pacifie is from time to time visited by earthquake shocks or volcanic ernp* , ti'ons” ’ > .