CLEARING UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1942, Page 3

CLEARING UP

GOOD WORK DONE IN CARTERTON TREATMENT OF DANGEROUS BUILDINGS. BRIDGE & OTHER DAMAGE IN COUNTY AREAS. From early morning yesterday the Mayor, Mr D. L. Taverner, and Mr P. A. Cole, Town Clerk, were busy arranging for gangs of men, including many soldiers, to assist the borough workmen in demolition work. A large number of chimneys which were a danger to life and limb were razed to the ground. The soldiers did excellent! work in this connection. The broken plate glass from windows which was strewn on the footpaths, was all cleaned up by borough workmen, after which carpenters got to work and barricaded the broken front windows. The brick parapet of the W.F.C.A. premises was propped up in front with heavy timber and workmen soon demolished it. In the earthquake the rear brick wall of these premises collapsed. The Fire Station also suffered, the top portion of the western wall breaking away. Four buildings have been roped off as they are considered dangerous. They are the Regent Picture Theatre, which has been damaged considerably and in consequence pictures will pot be screened until further notice; the W.F.C.A., P. and T. Office, and Krahagen's big brick building. In the county the approach to the Gladstone Bridge is gone, the new concrete bridge near the Town Hall is damaged and there is no access to the coast only by way of Longbush. The Waiohine Bridge is considered unsafe for traffic and traffic yesterday was diverted by way of Swamp Road.

SCHOOL BUILDING SUFFERS. The secondary school, a brick and concrete biulding at the south end of Carterton, received such a bad shaking during the earthquake that it has been deemed necessary to prevent the use of the building until the Education Board’s architect had inspected it. The pupils are to be transferred to the old wooden school. The memorial arch at the Carterton Showgrounds was damaged and many large cracks are visible in it. HEAVY DAMAGE AT LONGBUSH. Longbush residents suffered severely by the earthquake and chimneys arc down in all the homes. Mr S. Dalgliesh’s residence was twisted from its piles. An outbuilding received the force of the earthquake from a different angle and has been twisted oil its base. Besides this damage the ground has subsided in many parts of the property and large cracks in the ground are visible. DANNEVIRKE ESCAPES STOCKS IN SHOPS SUFFER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DANNEVIRKE, June 25. In spite of the severity of the earthquake, the damage in Dannevirke is remarkably light, the chief damage being confined to stock in shops. Considerable consternation resulted at the United Nations ball in the Town Hall, which rocked in an alarming manner. At least three subsequent shocks of a very mild nature have been experienced since the heavy shake.