BODIES FOUND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1931, Page 10

BODIES FOUND

FOUR MORE IDENTIFIED

DEATH-ROLL REVISED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NAPIEK, 16th February. The few shakes that were recorded in the earthquake area to-day were very mild ones. A good indication that residents arc rapidly settling down is tho fact that the schools in Hastings were reopened to-day. Further remains of earthquake victims have been identified by the Napier police, in one case the number of a Post Office Savings Bank account supplying the clue. A body found in the boot shop of F. Thorpe and Co., Hastings street, has been identified as that of Thomas Atkinson, aged 37, a bootmaker and repairer for the firm. Atkinson was a married man with four children. Tho property found with remains recovered near Hayne's butchery in Hastings street has led the police to identify the body as that of Miss Cecily Theresa Redwood, aged 22, of Cobden road, Napier.

Paper ashes and scraps found in a handbag alongside two female bodies recovered from the footpath in front of M'Gruer's, Ltd., in Emerson street, contained one piece bearing a number which proved to be that of a Post Office Savings Bank account. This had led to the conclusion that the two bodies were those of the Misses Ruth and Jane Bryson, two elderly single ladies, of Scaly road, Napier, who were known to have been in the locality at the time of the earthquake.

A revision of the total list of dead brings the number to 119 identified and 25 unidentified, making 144 altogether. The total was previously given as 145, but it was found hliat one name had been duplicated.

Tho weather continues fine with a calm sea.

Numbers of slight tremors were felt during the day.