SURVEY NECESSARY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1938, Page 9

SURVEY NECESSARY

DEVASTATED HAWKE'S BAY AREA PROPOSALS FOR RELIEF (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 2. The necessity for a complete survey of the flood damage in Hawke’s Bay to enable the Government to decide what action should be taken to rehabilitate the devastated area was mentioned by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, in an interview last evening. The Prime Minister said a committee of prominent Hawke’s Bay citizens was to have been formed that day to deal with cases requiring immediate relief. That committee would be able to give a good indication whether the position could be handled locally or whether a national relief fund was called for. The devastated area would have to be surveyed and, after receiving the results of that survey, the Government would have to decide what was necessary to put things right. CONFERENCE AT NAPIER COMPREHENSIVE ACTION URGED By Telegraph.—Press Association. NAPIER, May 2. Decisions to set up committees to handle immediate relief requirements and to investigate the question of grassing lands and general rehabilitation and also a decision to make a recommendation to the Government to set up a complete tribunal to survey and advise upon the whole problem of flood protection in Hawke's Bay were made at a conference of local body representatives and officers of various Government departments held at the offices of the Hawke’s Bay County Council this morning. The conference was called for the purpose of making suggestions as to what form relief for the victims of the flood should take.