THE EARTHQUAKE AND ITS LESSONS
(To the Editor) Sir.—Had "Bricklayer" taken a little more time I think he would have produced a much more helpful letter. May I recommend him to carefully reperuse that letter. It is worth it. He, seemingly, was in so desperate a hurry to launch a reply, that the, words just tumbled helter-skelter off the end of his pen and spread themselves over the page, leaving, the reader a little bit befogged and by no means convinced. Tho buildings of the future, particularly public buildings, will be the manured result of the best brains that this and other countries—similarly subject to upheavals—can produce. If bricks can be satisfactorily reinforced well and good. , They certainly need re-inforcing or something, as the hundreds of fallen chimneys and also the ruins of the largest and best brick building in this city to-day amply testify. Poor workmanship was not responsible for the present state of the Boys' College. Experts tell us that here the workmanship was first-class. The earthquake was responsible, and what we want is something that will stand up to an earthquake even if we have to go back to wood.—l am, etc., OBSERVER. Nelson, 16th July.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 16 July 1929, Page 6
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