NAPIER EARTHQUAKE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1931, Page 5

NAPIER EARTHQUAKE

HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL. RECOMEMNDATION OF COUNCIL. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association) HASTINGS, February 13. The following recommendations were made by the Hastings advisory committee to the Hastings Borough Council and were adopted at a special meeting of the Council this morning. That it is desirable that business people of the town should, where practicable, take immediate steps to recommence j business in order that ordinary living J may be resumed; that the public be J 5 notified through the press it is destr- ’ able that women and children should return in the meantime; that the local authorities view with disfavour entry into the town of professional and business men from outside Hastings seeking business over the heads of local distressed citizens, whose businesses are disorganised. ; that public notification will be made to citizens that any appearance of profiteering will be dealt with by the continuation of n municipal store, until such time as nor_ mal trading is sufficiently resumed to allow competition to ensure under reasonable prices; that to facilitate employment of local labour. Government *\ be approached to suspend the existing "award rates; also that penalities be laid down to avoid offering or accepting of more than the maximum and also that less than the maximum may be legally offered and accepted ; that the period for retention of temporary buildings be extended to two years. That an urgent wire be sent to the NTitive Minister asking what is to be done to relieve Natives of the country districts. POSITION AT NAPIER. AIR OF CHEERFULNESS. NAPIER, February, 13. The weather at' Napier this mornins was cloudy. The sea. was. . calm with a steady breeze. The district ( ] ias enjoyed immunity from ’quakes of \ jm v magnitude since the heavy one yesterday ntorn in a 'and the effect of this is noticeable in the general cheerful two of the wholo community."

Legal offices in Napier opened this morning. Numbers of firms are combing for the present in offices least affected. The Health Department states: There Ls still no sign of typhoid, but preventative precautions must not lessen. FURTHER DEAD RECOVERED. N AFTER February 13. A supplementary list of dead is: Shirley John Stanley, aged 2), second clerk of the Napier Public Hospital, killed under an archway. Taggart William Thoms, senior, clerk of Napier Public Hospital, aged 27. similarly killed. Both bodies were privately interred to-day.