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Otago Witness, Issue 4029, 2 June 1931, Page 56

"If this earthquake doesn’t shake a lot of people up, I don’t know what will,'' said Mr J. Vigor Brown at a recent meeting of the Napier Sailing Club. He had seen many pepole walking as they had never walked before, going as if they were training for a race. This might be due to the loss of the trams, he added, amidst laughter. It was not a very nice thing to say, but there was no doubt that the earthquake, while it had done a lot of harm, had also done a great deal of good. Charles Edward Hills was sentenced in the Police Court at Wellington on Wednesday last to two months’ imprisonment, and James Grant, his companion, to one month for theft. They were concerned with taking a pair of hedge clippers and a screw driver from the convent of the Sisters of Mercy in Duffcrin .street after mowing a lawn and with theft from a dwelling that they visited when going about sharpening scissors.