ARTICLES FOUND IN BUILDING
HANDBAGS, WATCH, AND RING Several articles have been found by the police among the debris in Ballantyne’s building. They include four handbags but, so far as the police can ascertain, these do not belong to anyone reported missing. They may belong to members of the staff or shoppers who escaped from the building. The articles are—a gold dress ring with the initials M.H. engraved on it: a small oblong wrist watch of gold and pearl shell; a handbag with the name D. Butcher. 131 Opawa road; one with the name V. J. Cairns; one with the name S. L. May, 119 Hawford road; and one in which the only thing that can be deciphered is the registration of a ration book with Pierce Bros. Kilmore street. A charred bank book found bv a constable yesterday has been identified as the property of Miss Patricia Biver, who is one of those reported missing. CLUE TO IDENTIFICATION OF BODY Only one of the bodies recovered from Ballantyne’s building and now in the morgue at the Christchurch Public Hospital affords the slightest clue to I identification. It is the body of al woman, with a wedding ring on the ring finger of the right hand. I
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25346, 20 November 1947, Page 6
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