THE EARTHQUAKE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1931, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKE

Y.M.C.A. AT NABJER. VALUABLE WORK. (By Telegraph — l'cr Press Association) NAPIER, February 11. The Y.M.C.A., under tlse direction of its national committee, has a chain of information bureaux for the purpose of connecting friends and relatives outside the stricken areas with ■their unfortunate friends in the Napier district. -Each bureau is in charge of a Y.M.C. secretary with a large staff V-of clerks and investigators, who are scouting in the devastated area finding people who are anxiously sought for by friends throughout New Zealand. The Napier bureau since its inception has handled over two thousand enquiries. Over a thousand wires have been sent informing relatives of the whereabouts and the condition of their friends. The bureau staff are working sixteen hour 3 daily and are performing valuable work apart from acting in liason between the people in the stricken

area, and friends. They are also assisting in the disposal of mails, giving comforts of tobacco and cigarettes and supplying general information, Other firms starting business are Marsdens Book shop, Bull Bros., J. Duthie and Co., and B. D. Frame Architect. The H.M.S. Dunedin sailed at 10.30 for the north. The town is now dear of naval forces. HASTINGS CASUALTIES. HASTINGS, February 11.

A carefully compiled list of casualties from official sources indicates there are ninety-seven dead in 'Hastings. Three are missing, presumed dead and other bodies may be recovered: HAWKES BAY “TRIBUNE.’' ITS SHARE IN THE RESCUE WORK. HASTINGS, February 11. In keeping with the soirit of enterprise and courage shown, by its Napier contemporaries, the “the Hawkes Bay Tribune,” as soon as its staff bad finished taking a share in the urgent rescue and relief work that necessitated putting aside all other consideration for a day or two, carried on with the publication of a daily news sheet, in which it gave summarised items of outstanding interest, or informativeness. The first issue appeared on Wednesday last and it has been published daily since. Indeed the “Tribune” modestly claims what is probably the. unique distinction of bringing out the first Sunday issue of a daily newspaper ever published in N.Z.."’ Its contemporaries, who have joined : forces for tjie moment being either bettor Sabbatarians or more submissive to the law, observed last Sunday as a nominal day of rest. No rest is more than nominal here in these days. No doubt "the “Tribune” authorities anticipate immunity for their breach under plea of public service.