FOUR DEAD AT MURCHISON.
OVERWHELMED BY LANDSLIDE.
TWO AEROPLANES SENT TO WESTPORT.
TREMORS CONTINUED THIS MORNING.
EMERGENCY MEETINGS SUMMONED. - € Six lives at least were lost in the earthquake yesterday. They were: — A. D. Stubbs, engineer, at Takaka. William Chamley, miner, at Seddonville. C. Morel, a man, and Mrs. Bush and her son and daughter, at Murchison. Delayed reports are to hand from some West Coast towns, but Westport remains almost isolated, and two aeroplanes have been sent over from Christchurch.
Nelson and Reefton report that slight tremors continued all last night and this morning.
No estimate of the damage done by the earthquake is obtainable yet.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 9
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