QUAKE MENACE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20625, 28 May 1935, Page 10

QUAKE MENACE.

A Volcano Observatory Needed. SCIENTIST’S VIEW. Per Press Association. DUN EDI X". This Day. In his presidential address at the Science Congress of the Royal Society last evening, Mr R. Speight (Christchurch) covered a wide field in his sub-

ject, “ The Relation of Geology to Some Other Branches of Science and Some of the Learned Professions.” lie appealed for the encouragement of all branches of research dealing with fundamentals. Stressing the fact that the whole Dominion was liable to severe earthquakes, Mr Speight

expressed dissatisfaction with the response to the society’s action in urging that building regulations should be enforced to ensure adequately the safetv of life and property. He advocated the establishment of a volcano observatory, either on Tongariro or on White Island, pointing out that, although our volcanoes, had no obvious connection with our major earthquakes, the whole question of the stability of the fabric of our country was bound up with proper observation of these phenomena.