Survivors remember the Hawke's Bay earthquake 90 years on

Survivors remember the Hawke's Bay earthquake 90 years on
Tom Kitchin
© RNZ / Tom Kitchin
A 99-year-old remembers the struggles in the aftermath of the Hawke's Bay earthquake in 1931 that shattered and destroyed much of the region.
Nola Manley was one of the survivors who attended a ceremony in Napier today, marking exactly 90 years since the quake.
She was a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Havelock North when the quake struck and remembered rushing outside with her classmates.
"One boy got hit on the head with a brick as we came out, one off one of the chimneys, and a relation, they were up at the [local] baths and he got caught with a brick too."

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