Photo: NZ HeraldThe Government is investigating a national tsunami warning system, but in the meantime alarms are activated by each region's local Civil Defence organisation, he said yesterday. Gerry BrownleeMr Brownlee said neither he nor anyone, including Civil Defence, thought the response to the tsunami threat was acceptable. Civil Defence director Sarah Stuart-Black said yesterday the response effort was "beginning to move towards recovery''. HMNZS Canterbury was due back in Kaikoura yesterday from Lyttelton with supplies including power generators and fuel. A New Zealand Army convoy has arrived in Kaikoura with food and thousands of litres of petrol, diesel and water.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 18, 2016 20:12 UTC