New Zealand is horror-stricken by an appalling earthquake which demolished the cities of Napier and Gisborne this morning, causing heavy loss of life, the extent of which cannot yet be estimated owing to the cutting off of land communication with the stricken area. ...
Article : 541 wordsWhen the postal rates were increased in Australia last year the postmaster at Lord Howe Island wrote twopence on some of his ...
Article : 65 words"The talk of scrapping Canberra falls on deaf ears so far as the Government is concerned," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) in his reply to the deputation of Canberra representatives which waited on him and the ...
Article : 2,659 wordsThe first message received from Hastings to-night tells a tragic story. Already 21 bodies have been recovered, mainly from the streets of the ...
Article : 197 wordsIt has been ascertained from the Postmaster-General's Department that forgeries of the written surcharge by the Lord Howe Island postmaster are ...
Article : 74 wordsThe town of Poranguhau, 70 mile's South of Napier, also suffered severely. A number of workmen near ...
Article : 195 wordsWhile taking off from the Harbour off Dobroyd Point this afternoon a de Haviland seaplane struck a heavy squall and capsized. ...
Article : 154 wordsIt is estimated that a deficit of more than £6,500,000 will be shown on the working of the railways for the financial year at ...
Article : 58 wordsAn increase from 2/6 to 3/4 a thousand gallons in the water rate will be recommended to the Queanbeyan Municipal Council at its meeting on ...
Article : 85 wordsAccording to a message from Auckland, a radio picked up from H.M.S. Veronica states that the blulf over-looking Napier Bay collapsed ...
Article : 138 wordsA heavy deathroll is feared as a result of the demolition of two hospitals. There wore frightful scenes as patients and nurses were crushed ...
Article : 57 wordsThurstons was crowded out for the final in the Empire Billiards Championship between Lindrum and Newman. ...
Article : 140 wordsReports so far received are from the towns which still have use of telegraph and telephones. At these centres there is widespread damage. ...
Article : 148 wordsThe assistant-Postmaster-General (Mr. Glover), who is in charge of the air mail services, discussing the early establishment of a trans-Atlantic air ...
Article : 153 wordsA terrible judicial error has just been revealed in Saxony. A youth named Theerman was convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering a woman in ...
Article : 94 wordsRescuers are performing heroic deeds, some crawling right into the midst of tottering buildings attending to the victims and dragging ou bodies ...
Article : 101 wordsDetailed information from Napier [?]s not yet forthcoming. The commander of H.M.S. Veronica wirelessed that he visited the town and was ...
Article : 247 wordsA wireless message for help from H.M.S.Veronica in Napier Harbour was the first intimation of the disaster which reached other cities in the ...
Article : 159 wordsA terrible rumour is being circulated in Auckland that 100 are dead in the Hustings district alone, Every effort is being made to verify the ...
Article : 33 wordsThe survivors, who are being taken on board the liners Taranaki and Northumberland and the H.M.S. Veronica tell awful stories of their ...
Article : 82 wordsBrazil's dream of the conquest of the Amazon Jungles through the exploitation of the rubber resources by Henry Ford appears to have ...
Article : 158 wordsA further radio message received late this afternoon from the Veronica throws little more light on'the disaster beyond indicating the casualty [?]s ...
Article : 35 wordsSo severe were the oarthquake shocks recorded on the instruments at the Sydney and Riverview Observatories that the booms of the ...
Article : 67 wordsFierce fighting occurred at Bewul, a Hindu Sikh village 40 miles from RawaPindi this morning, as a result of a Moslem school-teacher cooking cow ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Veronica reports that it is impossible to get any definite information and water is being pumped from the harbour in an effort to quell the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe convulsions of the sea bed continued during the afternoon and the liner Northumberland wirelessed that the Napier Harbour was ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Prime Minister has broadcast an appeal to doctors and nurses to proceed to the stricken area. There are 15 trained nurses on the warships ...
Article : 72 words"It is an appalling disaster," said Mr Scullin last night when informed of the earthquake, "and the sympathy of all the people of Australia will go ...
Article : 54 wordsAn eye witness of the disaster reached Dannevirke late this afternoon and told a harrowing story of the experiences of residents of Napier. ...
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The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), Wed 4 Feb 1931, Page 1
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