| dc.creator | Peart, A. McG | |
| dc.date | 1969-03-31 | |
| dc.identifier | https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/1428 | |
| dc.identifier | 10.5459/bnzsee.2.1.113-115 | |
| dc.description | The direct responsibility for local action in the event of natural disasters in New Zealand falls on the urban and rural local authorities affected, but the structure of New Zealand’s society in general assigns departments of central Government key roles. This applied particularly
to the Vest Coast following the earthquake. The Coast has long been struggling as an economic region and has to a degree become dependent
on a number of central Government activities for its economic existence. Government departments therefore played a significant and perhaps critical part in actions which followed the Inangahua disaster. Those with establishments in the affected area of Hokitika, Greymouth, Reefton, Inangahua, and Westport were Social Security and State Advances (normally concerned with social and financial affairs), the Ministry of Works, N. Z. Electricity Department, N. Z. Post Office, N. Z. Railways, and Police (responsible for physical works or the provision of essential community services). Departments in the second group are experienced in dealing with the effects of frequent emergencies as far as their equipment and services
are concerned, and were thus able and ready to deal effectively with many problems created by the earthquake. | en-US |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering | en-US |
| dc.relation | https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/1428/1361 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright (c) 1969 A. McG Peart | en-US |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | en-US |
| dc.source | Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 2 No 1 (1969); 113-115 | en-US |
| dc.source | 2324-1543 | |
| dc.source | 1174-9857 | |
| dc.title | The roles of government departments | en-US |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Article | en-US |
