OF GREAT VIOLENCE
SHAKE AT MARTINBOROUGH VERY FEW HOUSES ESCAPE. DAMAGE SAID TO BE UNIVERSAL. Difficulty has been experienced m obtaining telephonic communication with Martinborough, but information which is now drifting through is .0 the effect that the earthquake struck Martinborough with greater violence than any of the other South Wairarapa towns. Shops and houses were damagea worse than in any previous eart quake. Very few houses in the district escape the ravages of the upheaval, the damage in the business ana residential areas being universal. RESTORATION COSTS SUGGESTION TO PREMIER. CALL ON WAR DAMAGE INSUR- 1 ANCE FUND. Mr J H. Cunningham, General Manager of the W.F.C.A., Ltd., has despatched the following telegram to the Prime Minister: Trust you will favourably consider reimbursing in full or in part, out of War Damage Insurance. Fund, cost of renovations resulting from earthquake.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1942, Page 3
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141OF GREAT VIOLENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1942, Page 3
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