42 REPORTED MISSING

Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1947, Page 5

42 REPORTED MISSING

Forty-two persons were reported missing to the police after the fire. This figure included. the 28 persons whose unidentii ed bodies were removed from tfio building and one woman who diod oi injurie s in hospital. Thirty-seven names were on the list of employees suppliea to the police by the firm and three other persons were reported missing by friends or relatives. Two auditors who were in the building at the time of the fire were also reported missing. Four other persons were described as doubtful ' ' as they may not have heard the radio eall to report at the barracks. The list of missing includes the secretary of the company, Mr. W. J. Hudson, Mr. Arthur Stewart, a partner in the firm of Stewart and Beckett, public aecountants, and Mr. Mawson Stewart, an employee of the firm. The two lastnamed were doing auditing work in the ofiice when the fire broke out. The list of missing is as follows:-— EMPLOYEES Miss Jessie Stewart Smith, 148 Peveral Street, Riccarton, credit departnient. Mertyl Joy Wilby, 23 Clive Street, '•redit office. Judith Lloyd, 32 Dormer Street, credit office. Eileen Gillard, 273 Armagh Street, credit office. Mary Porde, 75 Montreal Street. credit office. Gerald Hampson, 35 Saies Road, credit office. Maggie Hampson, 35 Saies Road, credit office. Edwin A. Brown, 17 Elgin Street, credit office. Agnes Perriter, 862 Colombo Street, credit office. i Ruth Lillian Bradbury, 7 Ashgrove Terrace, clerical department.

Muriel Serra, 11 Tilford Street,, credit department. Helen Hamilton, 24 Ayr Street, credit department. Nellie Ohristensen, 27 Chapel Street. Alan Lawson, 41 Bishop Street, :redit doffice. John Harold Welsh Lough, 115 Merivale Lane, accounts department. Patricia Diveg, 53 Ranfurly Street, Kaiapoi, accounts department. Iris Evelyn Elwood, 81 Barbour Street, millinery department. Kitty Webb, 15 Western Terrace, millinery department. Shirley Dorne Coles, 478 Cashel Street, millinery department. Jean Dick, Hutchinson Street, Sydenham, millinery department. Willomina Hepburn, 113 Burke Street, millinery department. Vilma Osvath, 113 Peveril Street, millinery department. Rosaline Hayman, 23 -Mayfield Aveme, St. Albans, millinery department. Isobel Ward, 1 Dover Street, display department. Jane Kinsman Challis, 71 Crystal Street^ display department. Mr. Rodgers, 103 St. Albans Street. Miss Beale, 13 Nayland Street. Mrs. Were, 18 Berry Street. Mr. Hudson, MF. McKibbin, Miss Kerr, Mrs. McLean, 1 G-arden Road, clerical department. Kath Newton, 158 Ollivier's Road, Linwood. Mrs. Violet May Code (or Cody), died from injuries. Oolin Frederick Lovell, King Street, ' Rangiora. REPORTED MISSING BY FRIENDS OR RELATIVES » Mary Kelliher, Y.W.C.A., credit office. Ella Baker, Colombo Street, dressmaking department. Bawn Fahey, 116 Peterborougn Street.

REPORTED IN BUILDING A? I TIME OF FIRE A. Stewart, Hamilton Aveiiue, Fendalton, auditor. Mawson Stewart, 42 Alpha Avenue, auditor. DOUBTFUL LIST Four women, one from the unaerclothmg department, were on the list described as "doubtful".