INQUIRY AS TO DEATH-ROLL
MESSAGE FROM LORD BLEDISLOE
(British Official Wireless.) BUGBY,_Sth February. The New Zealand High Commissioner in London, Sir Thomas Wilford, this morning talked by wireless telephone to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr. G. W. Forbes, in Wellington, 12,000 miles distant. The Prime Minister stated it was still impossible to give any definite figure of the lulled and injured in the earthquake, but in view of the anxiety which Sir Thomas Wilford explained was felt by New Zealanders in England, the Prime Minister said an effort would bo made to send a casualty list to-morrow. The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe, in a further telegram to-day to the Dominions Secretary, Mr. J> H. Thomas, regarding the earthquake, says: "The earlier reports of serious loss of life and severe damage to property in the business portions of Napier and Hastings are now confirmed, .but in the residential areas the damage was not excessive. The inhabitants have shown remarkable calmness and fortitude in their severe trial, and there have been many acts of heroism. , .. "The people throughout the country are responding to the call for assistance with a promptitude and generous unselfishness which compel the greatest admira';ion." .„'■.,' The Duke and Duchess of York have received a cable from Lord Bledisloe conveying the appreciation of • those who suffered bereavement and injury in the earthquake, and of all the Dominion, for the sympathy expressed in the telegram from Their Highnesses. i (Received 7th February, 2 p.m.) .. LONDON^ 6th February.' Sir Thomas Wilford, in a letter to "The Times," says: "Although it is not proposed to issue an appeal for ■assistance to the sufferers, 'The Times's' magnificent voluntary lead will, despite these bad days, undoubtedly stimulate the desire of the people of the Homeland to help the afflicted. I shall be gratefuT if "The Times' will acknowledge the subscriptions which are now coming in freely." ,v
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1931, Page 14
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