’QUAKES LESS ACTIVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 704, 2 July 1929, Page 7

’QUAKES LESS ACTIVE

SETTLERS RETURNING TO MURCHISON RESTORATION URGED Press Association NELSON, Monday. rpHE feeling at Murchison is that all able-bodied men should return to restore their homes for their families. Earth tremors and detonations are much less frequent and not at all disturbing. Twenty-five more settlers returned this morning and more are following as soon as possible. A meeting of the emergency committee was held today. A resolution was passed that the Government he asked to forthwith instruct the Public Works Department to carry out the restoration of Murchison with a view to repatriating Murchison refugees at the earliest possible moment. A further resolution suggested that such restoration should be deemed to include the replacing of private dwellings on their piles, structural repairs, including the restoration of chimneys, the replacement of water tanks and stands and general cleaning up.

OCEAN BED RAISED

FARM SUBSIDES PHENOMENON AT WAIMARIE Pres s Association WESTPORT, Monday. Mr. Dan Llewellyn, of Waimarie, on the coastal route to Karamea, writes: “From the white cliffs to my place the ocean bed has risen to a height of at least 100 feet at the highest point for a distance of about a mile and probably more. The width varies up to 500 yards. On the top of this formation there are hundreds of pawa shells and mussels, also crabs and fish. “Opposite this upheaval and on my property there is a huge cavity to a depth of, I should think, 100 feet, with an area of hundreds of yards. My property is badly torn up. I don’t know what stock is lost. The worst trouble is that 1 cannot get the remaining cattle away on account of slips.”

RADIO FOR KARAMEA

CARRIED BY AIRPLANE Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Captain M. Buckley, officer in charge of the Wigram airdrome, left Christchurch in a Moth airplane at 8.55 this morning and arrived at Westport at 10.48. Thirty-four minutes later the Moth took the air again, carrying a wireless operator and a short-wave radio transmitter to Karamea, so that that town may have communication with the rest of the world again. Captain Buckley took with him Corporal 11. Smith, who will supervise the packing and shipment of the other Moth which was damaged while on the ground in last week’s gale. Captain Buckley will leave the Motli at Westport, so that for a day or two longer Captain Burrell will be able to continue his work of helping to maintain communications on the coast, and will himself return by train. A temporary hangar has been built on the beach at Westport by the Public Works Department.