A PROLONGED SHAKE
ONE OF THE WORST YET
WHOLE TOWN AWAKENED
I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIER, This Day. Tho weather is fine, the wind being westerly. The sea was heavy overnight, but it is subsiding rapidly. Tho whole town was awakened at 4.50 a.m. to-day by one of the worst shocks since the original earthquake. Tho shake was prolonged. Otherwise the night was quiet. Food tickets are now necessary, supplies being strictly limited. Only those with an order from their employers are sbeing supplied. The police control has reached such perfection that every house in the town is visited several times each night by special constables in pairs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 14
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108A PROLONGED SHAKE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 14
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