Booklet, Napier's Earthquake
Maker
Barlow, P W G
G W Venables & Co Ltd
Object detail
Brief Description
P W Barlow's account of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. He describes the initial event, the destruction immediately afterwards and the rescue efforts he witnessed in the Central Business District by both Navy personnel and ordinary citizens. He describe scenes at the Nelson Park camp and his own efforts to make his way home to set up camp for himself and family and to ensure the security of neighbourhood properties.
He writes of the two men appointed by the Government as Commissioners to control the town and to advise on matters concerned with its restoration, Mr Barton and Mr Campbell; and of Mr Barton's recommendation that a committee be formed to submit proposals for improvements in the town when the rebuilding began. Reference is also made to the rebuilding which was conducted when the quakes had subsided and services were restored. A temporary office was set up for the Lands and Survey Department at the Athenaeum and it was from here that the restoration work with titles and the organizing of contracts for the surveying the rural areas of Hawke's Bay was conducted.
He concludes his story with a description of a plan of beautification for the newly formed suburb of Marewa which had been uplifted by seven feet following the earthquake and had gone from marshy land unfit for residential purposes to reclaimed land now able to be utilized.
He writes of the two men appointed by the Government as Commissioners to control the town and to advise on matters concerned with its restoration, Mr Barton and Mr Campbell; and of Mr Barton's recommendation that a committee be formed to submit proposals for improvements in the town when the rebuilding began. Reference is also made to the rebuilding which was conducted when the quakes had subsided and services were restored. A temporary office was set up for the Lands and Survey Department at the Athenaeum and it was from here that the restoration work with titles and the organizing of contracts for the surveying the rural areas of Hawke's Bay was conducted.
He concludes his story with a description of a plan of beautification for the newly formed suburb of Marewa which had been uplifted by seven feet following the earthquake and had gone from marshy land unfit for residential purposes to reclaimed land now able to be utilized.
Production place
Production technique
Media/Materials description
Paper printed in black ink.
Measurements
Height x Width: 214 x 138mm
Classification terms
Subject person
Subject period
Subject date
03 Feb 1931
Post 03 Feb 1931
Post 03 Feb 1931
Credit line
gifted by Pauline Swinburn
Other number(s)
m98/59, 64391
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