THE CHEVIOT EARTHQUAKE.
PREMIER MERITS THE KELIEF COM- ( MITTEE. PER PEESS ASSOCIATION. Chbistchuroh, December 9. The Premjer visi'ei Cheviot to-day, and met the relief committee in the evening, when a report was presented s'a'ing that 60 applicants assessed thpir damage by earthquake at £3340. There were other applicitious, some of which the committee had yec to investigate, and in other casas they thought applicants were in a po ition to beir their loe3. The relief funds raispd in Unristchurch amounted to about £BOO, and would probably reach £IOOO. An expert builder the cost of roughly repairing the houses of these who most needed help at £755; arid ch:itt Is destroyed in tho<o ess** wore wosth about £ISOO. Tae Premier said that after whao the colony had done in other catis he f. It that if further public Mib-scrip' ions could b-riisid to £IOOO, the Govurnuunt would tike the responsibility of providing the other £I2OO required.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 291, 10 December 1901, Page 2
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155THE CHEVIOT EARTHQUAKE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 291, 10 December 1901, Page 2
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