REBUILDING NAPIER
EFFECTIVE REPAIR WORK. CONTRACTORS’ INGENUITY. Surprisingly effective work has been done at Napier in repairing wooden houses that were badly damaged by the earthquake. Some were knocked off their foundations and reduced to what looked like complete wrecks. According to a visitor, who lately spent some months in Hawke’s Bay, no case has been too bad for the contractors to restore. They have shown much ingenuity in lifting houses back on to their foundations, truing up walls and floors, and replacing roofs, by the use of jacks and hand winches. When painted and papered and furnished with new chimneys, such dwellings show not the slightest signs of damage. Even more remarkable work has been done in repairing the reinforced concrete portion of the Greenmeadows Seminary. Only the lowest storey of this failed. The two upper floors, which were almost unharmed, have been jacked up 3ft into correct alignment and the lower portion has been rebuilt, making the whole as good as new.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1932, Page 5
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164REBUILDING NAPIER Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1932, Page 5
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