KILLED AND INJURED
ADDITIONAL LISTS
Further information regarding earthquake casualties is as follows: — DEAD. Walker, Walter Zealand, killed at Hastings. Napier, Peter (70), Parker Island Home; died from injuries. Eeid, aeorge (41), quarryman; died from injuries. Parkinson, R., Tikikono, Waipawa; died from injuries. Wright, Percy, mercer, Hastings street, Napier (previously reported miasing). ■ Grant, Gordon, chemist, Hastings; died of injuries. , UNIDENTIFIED REMAIKS. The following is a further list of bodies unidentified and their description:— Female, age 25 to 35, slight build, dark brownish hair greying at temples, brown: eyes, small round face, small round figure, small hands, natural teeth, short nose, ring on left middle finger, gold wristlet watch, wearing cham-pagne-coloured dress and stockings, fawn straw hat, tangerine ribbon with black edging, small crocodile shoes (brown). ■ Female, from Nelson Park, who died at the casualty station, aged 45 to 5.0, tall, well-made, sallow complexion, large nostrils, brown hair, no. teeth, blue eyes* Female, from park..racecourse,... age about 70, short, slight build, grey hair, thin features, no teeth,, few hairs on chin, blue eyes, rather large nose,'fleshcolouTed stockings, no ornaments, . Female, hpspitalpatient, middle age, hair growing ; grey, small nose, top plate of false teeth, lower teeth natural, blue eyes,rather broad face, wrist watch and sample of dress taken, two rings left on tho, body, one on third right finger, one' on'second-left finger. Mole,: about 25, tall, veil'built, broad face, medium nose, natural teeth, hazel eyes, light brown hair; wearing: dark tweed trousers, black braces, •. grey waistcoat, white shirt with faint1 brown stripes,' black • 'working" boots,:purple suspenders, grey socks with black square lines.. ~....- , .'-■ ■. -■ • , Female, about 70' years; medium height, slight build, without teeth, clothes burned.■■.. ' ; Charred remains of two human bodies. Four, unidentified, collections of ashes, one of. these may be 'possibly... identified, but others will never be. .An unidentified body has been recovered' from the Grand, Hotel, /Hastings. ' . ■/■■ '...; ,". v ' .■'■■'■■ , COERECTIONS. Uoss (Mi's.), • wife of J. A. Ross (killed), proprietor Grand Hotel, Hastings, is alive; previously reported dead. ; . Kyle, Leo- (35), barman; reported dead.' ■■■■■ ; : - Luxford, Lewis, Sylvian, and Marie, who were ; reported- missing 'at Hastings, ,aro safe; now in,Wanganui.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 11
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346KILLED AND INJURED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 11
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