The post-office at Tucklan, in charge of Mr. A. H. Jones, and his residence and store adjoining were, with the contents, destroyed by fire to-day. The residence was insured with ...
Article : 55 wordsA bitter attack upon the Government for its failure to provide assistance to necessitous farmers was made in the Legislative Assembly yesterday by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Bavin). He urged the immediate repeal of legislation restoring the 44-hour ...
Article : 181 wordsA special representative of the "Dominion," in a message from Napier, says:- Napier as a town has been wiped off the map. The town is just a mass of ruins, ...
Article : 824 wordsThe letter A gives the position of Clive-square. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 15 wordsBluff Hill-road at Napier has been completely obliterated, and is now nothing but a mass of rock and clay, from which portions of houses are protruding. ...
Article : 143 wordsThe special representative of the "Manawatu Daily Times" (Mr. Bradfield), in recounting last night the scenes he had witnessed in Napier and ...
Article : 1,003 wordsThe prune-picking season has commenced on the four Young soldier settlements, and it is anticipated that a record crop of 900 tons will be harvested. The problem of finding ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. John McDonald, 27, a resident of Pilliga, died from injuries received when a bottle containing gunpowder, exploded in his hand. McDonald, with Messrs. Albert Woods, Ernest ...
Article : 102 wordsThe walls of Napier prison collapsed, and there was nothing to prevent the prisoners escaping. They behaved, however, in a quite exemplary way. Two were seriously injured ...
Article : 84 wordsMrs. Jemina Byfield, aged 96 years, has died. She was the oldest resident of the Gundiroo district. Her mother, the late Mrs. Payne, of Gundagai, reached the age of 106 years, ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. Arthur Frederick Chaffey, of Nemingha, and Miss Kathleen Carter, postmistress of Nemingha, were seriously injured in a motor car accident. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Governor (Sir Phillp Game) transmitted the following message to the Governor-General of New Zealand yesterday morning:— "The Government and people of New South ...
Article : 502 wordsThe leader of the Opposition moved the adjournment of the House to consider "the failure of the Government to provide immediate financial relief to the necessitous ...
Article : 1,892 wordsA vivid description of the terrible scenes in Napier after the first great shock is given by Mr. J. Harris, a prominent manufacturer in that city. ...
Article : 625 wordsA Dannevirke reporter who reached Napier on Tuesday and made the return Journey last night states that scarcely a chimney is standing between Waipukurau and Napier. Repair ...
Article : 450 wordsA drastic reduction in expenditure has been announced by the municipal council consequent upon the recent reduction of rates. It is expected to save about £950 a year The ...
Article : 105 wordsBetween 30 and 40 local residents were charged at the police court to-day with having been on licensed premises on Christmas Eve. They pleaded guilty, and each was ...
Article : 446 wordsHastings was a town of death last night. Beneath its ruins lay the bodies of many men, women, and children, and it will be impossible to estimate the true death roll ...
Article : 508 wordsAlthough no official announcement has been made, it is believed that a new Federal plan for the financial assistance of wheatgrowers was prepared to-day at a conference attended ...
Article : 245 wordsThe Governor-General (Sir Isaac Isaacs) has despatched the following message to the Governor-General of New Zealand:—"I offer to you and the people of New Zealand, and ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) has forwarded the following message to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Forbes):—"If one of our warships now stationed at Hobart ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsThe New Zealand shock was recorded at Kew Observatory, 12,000 miles distant. The registration was twice the amplitude of the 1929 disturbance. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe public is making prompt response to relief funds. The Bank of New Zealand has given £2500, and Lord Bledlsloe £100. The Red Cross Society s representative in ...
Article : 253 wordsA major operation was proceeding in Napier Hospital when the earthquake occurred, according to details obtained by a member of the Wireless institute of New South Wales, ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Wood, of the Dannevirke "News," told the representative of the "Herald" last night an account given to him by a Mr. Weston, director of a Christchurch firm, of what ...
Article : 476 wordsThe imposition of a sales tax on flour is supported by Dr. Earle Page, leader of the Country party, in a communication to the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin). Dr. Page ...
Article : 234 wordsThe King has sent a cablegram expressing his deepest sympathy with the bereaved and sufferers In the House of Commons to-day the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 206 wordsThe late Father Thomas Boyle, S.M., who was killed at St. Mary's Scholasticate, near Napier, was bom in New Zealand, and received his secondary education at the Marist ...
Article : 134 wordsA representative of the 'Star," in a report brought from Napier by aeroplane, says:- At the moment nobody knows how many are dead or who are dead. With the first ...
Article : 290 wordsThe newspapers feature long cable messages from New Zealand with views of Napier Some attempt dramatic pictorial impressions based on descriptions. The editorials voice ...
Article : 218 wordsHundreds of people, many of them wounded, have been passing through Dannevirke from the stricken districts nearer the coast. ...
Article : 224 words"The Napier Cathedral was a beautiful building," said Mr. E. F. Pollock, of Strathfield, last night. Mr. Pollock resided in Napier for two years, ...
Article : 94 wordsThe first big conference organised by the Producers' Advisory Council was held at Eugowra to-day. It was attended by about 50 delegates from every important centre in the ...
Article : 177 wordsHer Majesty's "Lilac Time," 8. Criterion Theatre: "On the Spot," 8.15. St. James Theatre: "Topsy Turvy." 2.15, 8. Grand Opera House: "Ace High," 8. ...
Article : 156 wordsMr. L. J. Schmitt, New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Australia, received the following official cable message from the Department of Commerce and Tourists, Wellington, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Superintendent of Telegraphs stated yesterday that all cable messages for Hawkes Bay, after reaching New Zealand, were being sent forward by aeioplane, but there was a ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Black Geyser at Wairakci, near Rotorua, formerly known as Kruger, after three years' inactivity, is now throwing up columns of water 30 feet high several times a day. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 5 Feb 1931, Page 10
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