HAWKE’S BAY QUAKES

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1931, Page 7

HAWKE’S BAY QUAKES

MOTION NOT VERY ALARMING

LANDSLIDE CREATES LARGE LAKE

TWO RIVERS DAMMED IN GORGE.

ANOTHER BODY ROUND AT NAPIER.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, Feb. 25. Following three or four quite distinct shocks last evening and early this morning, an earthquake lasting almost 30 seconds was felt in'Hastings at 11.40 o’clock. It began and continued gently, although it was about the fourth worst felt here since February 3. The motion was not alarming. It contained nothing in the way of the violent jolting that characterised the worst shakes. Napier

also experienced a violent shock at 11.40 a.m., and in Wairoa the buildings rocked alarmingly. There were several heavy jolts in Wairoa last night. k The . formation of a new lake, said to be as large as the lake at Tutira, which, next to Taupo and Waikaremoana, is perhaps the most considerable in the North Island, is reported to have resulted from the earthquake, probably from the earthquake on February 13, which seems to have had such violent effects on the northern part.of the earthquake area. The report says that the new lake was formed at the junction of Te Hoe and Hautapu Rivers, near Ngatapa Station, Poverty Bay. At that point the combined rivers flow through a rocky gorge, which has now been completely blocked by a great landslide from the country on either side. A message from Gisborne states that the new lake is probably the one previously reported to have been caused by a huge slip in the Mohaka River. The remains of a human body were, found on the Criterion Hotel site at Napier. The total dead now accounted for is 147, of whom 119 have been identified. It is feared that the total has not yet stopped growing. . .

BUSINESS BEING RESUMED.

CIVIL POLICE DISBANDING.

, Napier, Last Night. No shocks have been felt since 11 a.m. to-day., Half the civilian police have been disbanded, and the number of people taking meals at public cookhouses has decreased by nearly 50 per cent, during the last two days. Business is being resumed on all hands.

SEWERAGE WORK PROCEEDING.

ADVICE TO HASTINGS .REFUGEES.

Hastings, Last Night. Water and sewerage connections are now complete to dwellings in about 40 of Napier’s streets. The Control Committee therefore urges refugees to make application for occupation permits.

MORE EARTHQUAKE PATIENTS.

PALMERSTON NORTH HOSPITAL.

Palmerston N., Feb. 25.

Admissions of earthquake, patients to hospital ares Mrs.; Vera Sifbtt, Enfield Road, Napier; Trevor Leslie Rodgers, Sidney Atkins and Albert Stock, three children from the showgrounds camp. Mrs. Liza Girling, McDonald Street, Napier, has been discharged from the hospital. ;