’QUAKE PREDICTION
EXPERTS’ STATEMENT APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Today. The statement that earthquakes could be predicted was made by Mr. P. G. Robinson, F.R.G.S., and Hr. C. Coleridge Farr, F.R.S., at the conference of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. Dr. Farr said there was a duty to humanity to carry on with the precise levelling: work so that prediction could be aided. It was decided “That this institute press upon the Government the need for geodetic levelling between the Hast and West Coasts of both Islands, and also for a gravimetric survey of the whole Dominion to be begun under the control of the Lands and Survey I)e----partment
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 1
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111’QUAKE PREDICTION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 1
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