Editing 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake (section)

=== Miscellaneous ===
A group of prisoners working at Bluff Hill in Napier had four of their number buried in a landslip by the quake. The remaining prisoners dug them out, but two had been killed. The prisoners re-assembled without any attempt to escape and were locked up in the Napier Jail. In [[Taradale, New Zealand|Taradale]], [[Mission Estate]] missionaries' accommodation block had been built and opened in February 1931. The next day the Hawke's Bay earthquake struck, causing serious damage to the entire Mission. Two priests and seven students were killed when the stone chapel was destroyed. In [[Havelock North, New Zealand|Havelock North]], St Luke's church was damaged (but not destroyed) just before a wedding was due to take place. The couple got married later in the day, but outdoors.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}

About 10 per cent of homes on soft ground in Napier experienced ground damage, such as liquefaction.{{sfn|Dowrick|1998|p=141}} There was a large amount of damage to buildings, mainly ones made of brick; the earthquake occurred at a time before an earthquake building code was introduced.{{sfn|Dowrick|1998|p=146}} The Napier ''Daily Telegraph'' newspaper office was destroyed by the quake,{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}} and so was the ''Hawke's Bay Herald''{{'}}s printing facility in Hastings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Hawke's Bay Tribune |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/hawke-s-bay-tribune |access-date=11 May 2024 |website=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> [[Napier Technical College (New Zealand)|Napier Technical College]] was destroyed in the earthquakes, which caused it to be disestablished and amalgamated into [[Napier Girls' High School]] and [[Napier Boys' High School]].<ref name="historicplacesaotearoa">{{Cite web |date=1 May 2014 |title=H B Heritage News |url=https://historicplacesaotearoa.org.nz/assets/HPHB-NEWSLETTER-1-May-2014.pdf |access-date=12 April 2024 |website=historicplacesaotearoa.govt.nz}}</ref>