THE EARTHQUAKES

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3105, 2 July 1929, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKES

.RESTORATION OF MUROHISON. WORK OF EMERGENCY r COMMITTEE. NELSON, July 1. The feeling at Murchison is that all able-bodied men should return to restore their homes for their families. Earth tremors and detonations are much less frequent and not at all disturbing. Twenty-five more settlers returned this morning and more are following as soon as possible. A meeting of the emergency committee was held to-day. A resolution was passed that the Government be asked to forthwith instruct the Public Works Department to carry out. the restoration of Murchison with a view to repatriating MuTchison refugees at the earliest possible moment. A further resolution suggested that such restoration should be deemed to includ:* the replacing of private dwellings on their piles, structural repairs, including the restoration of chimneys, the replacement of water tanks and stands and general cleaning up. . OCEAN BED LIFTED. TRANSFORMATION AT KARAMEA. Jl FARMER'S LOSSES. WESTPQRT, July 1. Mr Dan Llewellyn, of Waimarie, on the coastal route to Karamea, writes: "From the white cliffs to my place the ocean bed has risen to a height of at least 100 feet at the. highest point for a distance of about a mile and probably more. The width varies up to 500yds. On the top of this formation there are hundreds of pawa shells and mussels, also crabs and other fish.

"Opposite this upheaval and on my property there is a huge cavity to a depth of, I should think, 100 feet, with an area of hundreds of yards. My property is badly torn up. I don't know what stock is lost. The worst trouble is that I cannot get the remaining cattle away on account of slips."