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IN LOS ANGELES PAPER 3y Telegraph-Special to "The Mail") CHRISTCHURCH, 18th July. "Hundreds killed, thousands injured, and ships not able to take 10 per cent, of the people who were fleeing from New Zealand," was how the Loa Angeles '"'Examiner" published the news of the earthquake on the West Coast, according to Mr F. J. 3>leedham, of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Christcliurch, who has just returned from a visit to the States. Mr Needham said he had read those reports'in big headlines across the front page of the newspaper, and he cabled to New Zealand himself for information, with the result that he receiY/ed a reply which gave him an indication of the actual position. "I gave the other paper the gist of my information," he told a "Press" reported, "and they published it and at the same time 'strafed' the "Examiner" most heartily. The papers are like that over there—they don't mince words with one another, but call a spade a spade."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 5
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166EXAGGERATED REPORTS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 5
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