THE EARTHQUAKE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 29 July 1929, Page 5

THE EARTHQUAKE

RELIEF APPLICATION FORMS BULLER’S OBJECTION (By Telegraph—Press Association) WESTPORT. This Bay. At a meeting of' the Puller Relief Committee it aviis resolved, after discussion, that correspondence from .the Central Committee be received in connection with the application forms. The committee was of opinion that tile details asked for, and to which objection had been ta"ken, sliotild not be required in the case of applications where the sum applied for was not more than £SO. UNIFORM SYSTEM OF RELIEF A letter received from the GrnnityNgakawau Committee asked the Buller Relief Committee “to convene a meeting of delegates from all other central relief committees to discuss the proposed method of dispensing relief with a view to arriving at a uniform system of restoration throughout the areas affected by the recent earthquake.” T]ie meeting endorsed the suggestion and favoured holding a conference in Westport. SEVERE SHOCK AT WESTPORT ABjr Ttlerraph—Preu Association) WESTPORT This Day. A very severe earthquake occurred at 2 a.m. yesterday. •The death took place in the Westport Hospital yesterday of Denis O’Sullivan, telegraph foreman, who came from Wei • • lington after the big earthquake and •surveyed new telegraph routes, and laid , lines where they were brokeft between Westport and Karamea, Lyell, and Inangahua Junction. He never spared himself, working under very trying conditions from a sense of duty. Death was due to bronchitis and a severe attack of influenza. Earthquakes at irregular periods are still being experienced here, many of them being of a jolting nature. ’QUAKES AT TAKAKA ' ’ N - The Chief Postmaster at Nelson (Mr G. W. Hazleton)-has received the following telegram from the postmaster, Takaka“A severe shake was experienced /., 2.57, Sunday morning, followed by others of , lesser severity at 11.30 p.m., and 12.5 and 12.20 this morning.” During the week-end tremors were ' felt in Nelson at 4.45 p.m. on Saturday, 3 a.m. Sunday and 7 o’clock this morning.