HAVELOCK NORTH

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 14

HAVELOCK NORTH

"BADLY PUSHED ABOUT"

"Havelock North hag been, badly pushed about," said Mr. Davies, who, with his wife and five children, arrived in Wellington by the Main Trunk train yesterday. With them were Mr. and Mrs. Burton and their two children. The party was camping at Waimarawhen the earthquake occurred. "We were walking on the beach and the sand came up to meet us," said Mrs. Davies. "We saw big cliffs slipping down. Cracks opened up in tho beach." Mr. 'Davies had to go to Napier to find two of his children, who were in the town at the time. One was hit on the head with a board, but this morning all the children, although tired and. a little nervy, were quiet and patient. The families camped on the hills at night fearing a tidal wave. When Mr. Davies was in Napier ho found his home quite hopelessly wrecked, and so decided to bring his family to Wellington, hoping for relief here. "One of the most tragic things to witness was the arrival in Napier of people searching for friends and relatives and asking absolute strangers, 'Do you know Mrs. Smith? Have you seen a Misß Brown?' and so on," said Mr. Davies. "Ever so many families were separated in the 'quake, and searched unceasingly for one another. But there is a feeling of fellowship between everybody, no matter what their station vn life."