FALSE VIEW OF ’QUAKE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 8

FALSE VIEW OF ’QUAKE

REPORTS AS “AUCKLAND SERIOUSLY AFFECTED” From cablegrams received f r . Pondon by Auckland business hous" 1 3 t would appear that the reports , ffiVe New Zealand earthquakes ih° ai tpeared in the British Press gr exaggerated the Hue position and sutwrest that Auckland has been sen ous.\y affected. TO.vi Auckland Chamber of con merctS has communicated with th--Primes Minister, suggesting that an authoritative statement from the Gov ernmc art be published in Britain throug b the High Commissioner, anti in Nort Ti America through the various New 1 Waland Government agents there, d. taw ing attention to the comparativek r narrow localisation of seri. ous dame, te and loss of life. The Au Vkland Chamber of Com raerce is al teo communicating dirert in a similar m‘rain, with the linden Chamber of Commerce. ALAR? IH-ST ACCOUNTS WELLINGTON, Wednesday Exaggerated .mid alarmist accounts of the earthqua.Vu were published in some of the EngVkish newspapers, according to advi< tp received by the Prime .Minister, S, V* Joseph Ward. On receipt of this info timation steps were taken by the Prin ve Minister to acquaint the High < Commissioner for New Zealand in Lon tlon of the correci position, authority being cabled for the publication of an . Authentic statement in the United Kingdom. Similar action has since be t*n taken by Sir Joseph Ward through tl&e Prime Ministers of Australia and Canada and the British Consul in Ne w York. The following were cha racteristic of the headings used in so tne evening papers in London: • Earthquake Havoc in New Zealand,” "AThe Shaky Isle,” “Dominion Rocked,” and Widespread Damage,” •"Screaming Women and Children.”