COAST SURVEY

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 6

COAST SURVEY

, TO STUDY ’QUAKE EFFECTS. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 17. Acting on tlie recent reports of upheaven Is of the sea bed and changes in the contour df the foreshore for considerable distances, the Marine Department has arranged to carry out an aerial of the West Coast, from Greymouth to Farewell Spit, and possibly also of Tasman Bay. The aeroplane will leave the Wigram aerodrome, Christchurch, probably to-morrow, for Greymouth. Captain Whitford, of the Alai ine Department, who will join the aeroplane at Christchurch, will he in charge of the actual survey work. MURCHISON’S NEEDS. CHRISTCHURCH, July 17. The Mayor received the following night letter from Cr. M. E. Lyons, who is visiting the West Coast to ascertain the necessities of the sufferers by the earthquake:— “Murchison’s urgent need is for authority to spend £IOOO or £SOOO on giving each 'house a chimney and a roof. I suggest you urge this on the Central Committee, and tjiat you make an offer to. the Mayors of Nelson and Murchison to organise the necessary skilled labour to do the work. Plumbers to make tin chimneys, half a dozen bricklayers and Carpenters are needed. Women are arriving back to cheerless conditions. ' Weather has been wet. All men able to work should return.” Following'Cr. Lyons’s advice, most of the' Murchison men still in Christchurch are returning to the Coast tomorrow. In addition to the main earthquake on Monday night, there were two other shocks in the 24 hours ending noon yesterday, one at 12.54 p.iii. and another at 7.39 p.m. Both, said Air H. Skev, Director of the Christchurch -Magnetic Observatory, would be felt fairly severely at the point of origin. GLENHOPE CHIMNEYS DOWN. NELSON, July 17. Tlie earthquake shocks at Glenhope on Monday night brought dowii the remaining chimneys, which had already been repaired twice.