After Words - Interviews and letters from survivors of the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake Foreword / Helen McConnochie What is different about After Words? From recorded interviews and letters in the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust Earthquake Archive I have selected excerpts from survivors' stories reflecting the effects on their lives of February 3, 1931. I am only too aware that many of the recollections are from people whose names should be preceded by 'the late'. To all who have contributed, my thanks. To June Clarke, who has so generously given her time and many skills, my gratitude and appreciation. Before I began recording survivors' interviews, I was told very firmly "there was no looting, people were too nice." Read on... Interviews and compilation by Helen McConnochie ISBN: 0 476 01124 8