N.Z. INSTITUTE
REQUEST FOR SPECIAL SURVEY. [By T elegraph, Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 28. A statement that earthquakes could, be predicted, was made by F. G. Robinson F.R.G.S., and Dr C. Coleridge Farr, at the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Farr said there was a duty to humanity to carry on with precise levelling, so that the prediction w'ould be aided. It was decided: “That the Institute press upon Government the need for a'Geodoiic levelling between the East and West Coasts of both islands, and also for a gravimetric survey of the whole Dominion, to be commenced under control of the Lands and Survey Department.’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1929, Page 5
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