THE EARTHQUAKE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1929, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKE

FURTHER DONATION. vßy Telegraph—l're«s Association). WANGANUI, June 21. The Manawatu-Wanganui Council of Licensed Trade, voted £IOO towards the earthquake relief lund. NELSON NEWS. PIGEONS FOR KARAMEA. NELSON. June 24. Slips and washouts on the GlenhopeMurchisjii road have prevented further refugees from reaching Nelson this evening. The blockages are not of a serious nature. The Railway Department reported subsidences at the oilenhope-Kaka section e.irly this morning, enabling the morning train to go through to Glenhope. The Superintendent of the Telegraph Department at Wellington lias communicated with the Nelson Pigeon Club, requesting that pigeons be sent to the Karamea district with the idea of establishing a pigeon post between there and Nelson. By the Orepuki, 30 birds from the lofts of Messrs H. Simpson and J. Liddel, will be shipped to Wellington, and thence on by steamer to Karamea. Two pigeons will be liberated daily for Nelson, and messages on arrival will be handed to the Chief Postmaster. f . BENEFIT CONCERT. CHRISTCHURCH, June 24. The concert arranged last evening in the New Opera House towards the Mayor’s Earthquake Relief Fund was a great success. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any other Sunday concert yet held has achieved the success of this one, arranged by the R.S.A. The takings amounted to £127. GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS. HOW ARTHUR DOUGLAS STUBBS DIED. The action of the late Arthur Douglas Stubbs, one of the engineers at the Golden Bay Cement Works at Tnrakohe (near Collingwood), who was killed last Monday week through a fall of rock, dislodged by the earthquake, furnishes a striking example of courage and self-sacrifice. . When the earthquake came, a fid the cliffs above the power-house opened and cracked, Mr Stubbs, who was in the office, realised that the electric power was on over the whole works, endangering 100 men who wore escaping from the rocking buildings. He rushed into the switchboard roofiC and pulled out the switches and cut off the power. He was almost out of the door when a huge rock crashed through toe power-hou.se roof, demolishing half the power-lmusc and offices and killing Mr Stubbs instantly. Mr Stubbs, who was a member of the Golden Bay Lodge, was accorded a Masonic funeral at Hastings last'week.

REFUGEES ARRIVING. REEFTON, June 25. Sufferers by earthquake at Matakitalci continue to arrive in Reefton today. Many lost everything. Shocks continued all night at Reefton with on© violent one at 3.30 a-.m. The Progress League last evening passed a resolution that a telegram be sent the Prime Minister urging' tlio whole funds subscribed for the earthquake rolief lie taken over by the Government and administered through the Hospital Board in each district with the assistance of one or more representatives appointed from the particular locality afflicted and to be immediately available and primarily devoted to relief, rehabilitation for those who lost their homes, breadwinners or means of livelihood rather than those who suffered from minor property losses.