DETAILS REGENT
TERRIBLE QUAKE
NEW ZEALAND
EYE-WITNESS RELATES PER
SONAL OBSERVATIONS OF
CATASTROPHY
(By “Babe” Hayes)
In 1929 while traveling from
Juneau to the States, I had the
pleasure of meeting G. Wolseley
King, a prominent business man
from Taradale, Hawkew Bay, New
Zealand. I have heard from Mr.
King right along and on February!
26th I received a long letter from
him giving me some news on the
terrible earthquake which devas
tated parts of New Zealand last
February, also a writeup on some
of the general conditions thruout
the country.
“Quoting certain parts of his j
letter, first in reference to the deer j
in New Zealand. “The government i
pays a bounty on deer in New Zea- |
land. They are becoming a great |
nuisance in many parts of New i
Zealand. It seems a great shame to
have to desttroy them, but they
are doing so much damage to trees
and crops that the farmers have
requested the government to re
duce their number. Of course New j
Zealand offers so much in the way
of fodder for all animals as out in
the back country we have hun
dreds of thousands of acres of for
ests that is evergreen. All New
Zealand forest is evergreen. Some
years ago the Australian opossum
were introduced into New Zealand
and they have increased rapidly
all over the hill and mountain
country. We also have the rabbit
pest in New Zealand. Australia has
the same pest and in some places
the poor farmers are practically
driven off their farms on account
of the hordes of rabbits that in
habit their holdings.
“Now regarding the earthquake
which we had on the morning of
the 3rd of February when both the
citties of Hastings and Napier were
destroyed first by the earthquake
and then by fire. That is the gieac
curse of gas for cooking purposes,
and it was the gas that set the
fires going. Dozens of poor un
fortunate people were loasteo
alive. Cries for help came f
the heaps of debris. People were
trapped under bricks and moitar
and large blocks of masonry. At
the time of writting it is quite im
possible to give an accuiate ac
count of the damage done. One
man who has lived in Napier for
the most of his life and who is well
acquainted with va’uations, esti
mates that the total damage done
to Hastings and Napier by the
quake and fire would be over $50,
000,000, and that is a very low es
timate. Both the stricken areas
need all the help they can gee.
Hundreds of •people have los„ every
thing they possessed. Whe’.e we
live in Taradale, the distance from
Napier is but 15 miles with Hast
ings about nine miles further on.
“The whole affair is practically
beyond me to describe, but si.all
do my best to state what I saw
myself. Where our home stands,
we seemed to be right on top of
the trouble. I was coming out of
the wash-house when the “big
shake” came and the first thing
I knew but that Mrs. King was
flung right out of the back door
and down on the concrete yard.
Our house stands high of the
ground and we have four concrete
steps to make it easy to get inside
the house, so Mrs. King had a
very bad fall, and to make mat
ters worse, the bricks from the
breakfast room chimney came
tumbling down all around her.
Some bricks struck her on the
back of the hand, another on the
arm and sitll another on the knee.
I rushed her out of the wash-house
and grabbed her arm, pulled her
to her feet and we both ran to
wards the motor shed but we did
not reach there as we were both
thrown completely off or feet and
fell on a part of the garden. You
could not stand up, and no matter
how you tried to do so. This first
big shake lasted for nearly three
minutes and so great was the an
gle of the house that large pictures
were swung around and turned
their faces to the wall. By that,
you can guess just what an angle
we were on. The quake seemed
to come right up from the bowels
of the earth. We were first shook
and tossed up and then it had a
twisting motion, and we appeared
to be riding on a huge lump of
jelly.
“What is known as the Napier
Inner Harbour, has now become
dry land, with thousands and
thousands of tons of fish and shell
fish rotting and filling the air
with a terrible stench, which can
be smelled for 30 miles away.
We get our share of it. The sea
shore line at Napier came up from
10 to 12 feet and the sea bed at
a place named Mohaka ( pro_
nounced as Mowhawker) has come
up 70 feet. They found a snap
per fish 50 feet from the water on
a ledge that high. The whole
of the hill country for miles in- <
land and around Napier are sim
ply shaken to bits, and when the
big rains set in, then large slips
will occur and what is now valley
and flats will be covered up. One
farmer on the coast lost 190 acres
of his land whifch was shaken up
and slipped into the sea. What is
known as the Bluffs-Hill at Na
pier came down and we do not
know how many people are under
it. They suggest leaving it as it
is so that it will make a natural
grave for all those known to be
dead underneath. Whether they 1
will do this or not remains to be
seen. We went into Napier the
next morning after the great shake
and the smell of burning flesh and
bones of the poor victims under
neath the ruins was simply ter
rible.
“We had another big quake at
1:45 p. m. on the 8th instant, this
again frayed the nerves of the
inhabitants who again suffered.
Then the whole country swayed
to the accompaniment of heavy
rumblings, and of course, further
(Continued from jfage Six)
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