ONLY ONE SLIGHT SHOCK

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1931, Page 7

ONLY ONE SLIGHT SHOCK

NAPIER HAS CALMER DAY

PROGRESS OR REHABILITATION,

COMMITTEE TO CHARGE FOR FOOD.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Napier, Last Night. The weather is fine, the sea calm and the wind light. Only one slight shock of earthquake was felt to-day. For tarne unexplained reason the electric light failed to-day and was not on at 9 p.m. Maori people are being removed from white camps as a health measure, natives being considered to be carriers. A night soil service is to be started in Napier South, where the sewer damage is severe.

It is reported that it has been decided by the committee to charge all people 4s per day for food. This is expected to create some objection. Temporary hospital accommodation for 50 or 60 patients is to be erected on the hospital hill.

Arrangements are proceeding to ship wool and meat. The steamer Hauraki is to berth at the breakwater.

The work of river protection isproceeding satisfactorily. As there seems little prospect of the high and technical schools in Napier reopening this term, the Education Department urges parents to send their children' immediately to the nearest school.

Mr. C. O. Morse, chairman of the Citizens’ Committee, issued a statement declaring that owing to the influx of unemployed into Napier the committee had found it necessary to restrict entry into the borough to those on authorised business or in possession of permits to return issued by the refugee or relief committees.

Employees of the Harris cap factories are required to report their whereabouts to the manager. The name of Mrs. C. Scott, Oliphant Road, in the Hastings casualty list, should be Miss Jean Scott, Hastings. THE RELIEF FUND TOTALS. CENTRAL LIST EXCEEDS £112,000. Wellington, Last Night. The Prime Minister’s earthquake relief fund now totals £112,592 16s 9d. Recent donations are: Second Church of Christ Scientist, Wellington, £3137 12s lOd; General Electric Company, England, £210; Colonial Motor Company, £500; Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Singapore, £500; Trustees of the 1923 Wellington Olympia Motor Exhibition Fund, £566 16s 6d; White Horse Distillers, Limited, £200; Arthur Bell and Sons, Perth, £100; Government of Fiji, £250; Orient Steam Navigation Company,- £105; National Bank of Australasia, Melbourne, £500; New Zealand Educational Institute, £250; A. Reyrolle Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne, England, £100; Baldwin’s, Limited, England, £100; Imperial Chemical Industries, England, £500; British Phosphate Commissioners, £2OO.

The Mayor of Wellington’s list is £30,064; the Post, Dominion and suburban lists total approximately £BOOO. At Timaru the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce unanimously carried the following resolution: That the Government be requested to allow as deductions for income tax purposes all contributions to the earthquake . relief fund made by companies or individuals.