1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake - Resources in our Libraries

Images

The Local History Images collection has over 100 images of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake. Search the Catalogue for these.

Newspapers

Hastings Library has newspapers on microfilm covering this period. Please ask at the Reference desk upstairs.
Some recent newspaper articles have been catalogued

Books

The following are some of the books held in the Hastings District Libraries on the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake, listed with the most recent at the top. Most Hawke's Bay local history books include sections on the 'quake and aftermath.

From disaster to recovery : the Hastings CDB 1931-1935 by Michael Fowler, 2007

Quake : Hawke's Bay 1931 by Matthew Wright, 2001, second edition 2006

AfterWords : interviews and letters from survivors of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, interviews and compilation by Helen McConnochie, 2004

West to the Annie : Renata Kawepo's Hawke's Bay legacy, by the RD9 Historical Committee; edited by Tony Robinson, 2002. Includes an Appendix with an eyewitness account "The day of the earthquake" by Nola McAulay.

Town and country : the history of Hastings and district by Matthew Wright, 2001

The Hawke's Bay earthquake : New Zealand's greatest natural disaster by Robert McGregor, 1998

Earthquakes by Anna Rogers; research by Geoff Conly, 1996

The Napier earthquake by Kevin Boon, c1990

The great quake by Robert McGregor, text; Peter Hallett, contemporary photographs, 1989

Darkest days by Bruce Morris, 1987 (a chapter on the 'quake)

City of the plains : a history of Hastings by M.B. Boyd, 1984 (a chapter on the 'quake)

Hawke's Bay "before" and "after" : the great earthquake of 1931 : an historical record, by Geoff Conly, 1981

1931-1981 : Out of the ruins : drawings and photographs of earthquake damage and 50 years after, drawings and text by Colin B. Wilkinson, c1980

The shock of '31 : the Hawke's Bay earthquake by Geoff Conly, 1980

Earthquake, Napier, 1931, published 1967

The full story of the great earthquake disaster at Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, on 3rd February 1931, published as The Weekender special overseas edition, February 25, 1931 (Reference only)