Tsunami

The Government are particularly concerned to ascertain the full extent of the damage in your section. You will, therefore, arrange to have a thorough survey made as expeditiously as possible, employing whatever means or agencies are necessary for this purpose and using forms supplied you by us.

We have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient servants

(SGD.)

H.B.C. Lake

H.M. Mosdell

Alex Campbell

P.T. Fudge

APPENDIX FOUR

Letter from Magistrate Hollett to Captain Davis, Ianthe

(note: Davis was one of the schooner captains commissioned to assist with the relief operations)

Earthquake Relief Committee

Of the Government of Newfoundland

Hon. President: Hon. Sir R.A. Squires, K.C.M.G., M.H.A., Prime Minister

Hon. Chairman: H.B.C. Lake, Esq., M.H.A., Minister of Marine and Fisheries

Hon. Corresponding Secretary: Hon. H.M. Mosdell, M.B., M.H.A., Chairman Nfld. Board of Health

Hon. Members: Hon. A. Barnes, Paed. D., B.Sc., Colonial Secretary

Hon. Alex Campbell, M.D., F.R.C.S. (E), M.H.A.

Malcolm Hollett, Esq.,, B.A. (Oxon), S.M.

Sudbury Building

St. John’s, Newfoundland

Burin North

June 14, 1930

Captain Davis

Schooner Ianthe

Burin.

Dear Capt. Davis:

I am in receipt of a telegram from Mr. Horwood, Chairman of the South Coast Disaster Fund Committee, asking me to instruct you to return to St. John’s on completion on this trip. You will therefore act accordingly.

I must take this opportunity of thanking you for the very able manner in which you have discharged your duties in taking around to the various harbours and coves the large amounts of materials which the Committee has placed in your charge. You have brought us one load of lumber from St. John’s and seven trips of round timber and various quantities of lumber and dories on these eight trips and I consider that you have done wonderful work. For example: On this last trip of the Ianthe I have asked you to unload material at eight different places, to wit; High Beach, Lamaline, Point au Gaul, Taylor’s Bay, Lord’s Cove, Lawn, Corbin and Burin and I have received word from Mr. Foote to state that you have called at each place and discharged the requisite amount of lumber and timber and it has been done very expeditiously.

We all quite realize the difficulty and danger to your ship in discharging at places up the Coast which are situated on a wild shore.

Please accept my thanks and the thanks of the Committee for the energy which you have put into this work.

With kindest regards,

Yours faithfully,

M. Hollett

APPENDIX FIVE

Letter from Magistrate Hollett to South Coast Disaster Committee

Earthquake Relief Committee

Of the Government of Newfoundland

Hon. President: Hon. Sir R.A. Squires, K.C.M.G.,

M.H.A., Prime Minister

Hon. Chairman: H.B.C. Lake, Esq., M.H.A., Minister of Marine and Fisheries

Hon. Corresponding Secretary: Hon. H.M. Mosdell, M.B., M.H.A., Chairman Nfld. Board of Health

Hon. Members: Hon. A. Barnes, Paed. D., B.Sc.,

Colonial Secretary

Hon. Alex Campbell, M.D., F.R.C.S. (E), M.H.A.

Malcolm Hollett, Esq.,, B.A. (Oxon), S.M.

Sudbury Building

St. John’s, Newfoundland

Burin North

August 15, 1930

R.F. Horwood, Esq.

Chairman, S.C.D.F. Committee

St. John’s

Dear Mr. Horwood:

On my last trip up the coast I have come across one or two other claims which I would like to have put in the same class as those others concerning which I have written you and where a cash payment seems to be the correct method.

(1) David Collins of Lamaline Meadow. This man is 83 and crippled and naturally unable to build again his stage which he lost and which he assures me has turned him in $20.00 per year for the last few years. The Stage was 18 x 14 x 8, and he hired it out for several years. He also lost $30.00 worth of clothing and considerable