SEARCH PROCEEDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20792, 7 February 1931, Page 12

SEARCH PROCEEDS.

WORK AT HASTINGS. DISCOVERY OF MISSING. (FIVE NOT IDENTIFIED. ITWO WOMEN NOW SAFE. FIEST REPORTED DEAD. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] HASTINGS. Friday. , Steady progress is being made with the work of searching the ruins. Sis more, bodies recovared have been identified. * There are five the identification of which is almost impossible. Four are female, and the sex of the fifth is not ascertainable, though the body is believed to be that of J. Tonkin, whose death .was vouched for yesterday by Mr. Harold Roach. One'of the female bodie9 is believed to be that of Miss Gladys Farmery, also an employee of Roach's, Limited. The police have. received word from Waipukurau that W. Hunt, who was injured near the Trades .Hall, Karamu Road, Hastings, and removed to Waipukurau, has died. One-' of the' bodies recovered from Roach's yesterday has been identified as that of Miss Mabel Orr, whose death had previously been vouched for by Mr. Harold Roach. Those, definitely identified are:— Mrs. T. H. Oulßhaw. Miss L. Culshaw. L. Fredsburg, aged 14, from Roach's Limited. W. Hunt, died in Waipukurau Hospital.' Arthur L. Ryan, journalist, found in the post office lobby. Ernest George Schmoll, 230, Heret-aunga Street, Hastings. : Mrs. Ah Wing, Chinese, and Mrs. Tuohy,' Seddon Street, both previously reported killed, are alive. „ The body identified as that of Mrs. Ah .Wing-is.believed to be that of Mrs. MacDonald. THE HOSPITAL LISTS. CASES AT PALMERSTON. PROGRESS OF PATIENTS. MANY SHOW IMPROVEMENT. [b* telegraph.—press association.] ;- :v- PALMERSTON NORTH, Friday. The following additional admissions have been made to the Palmerston North Hospital:— Jam<» Blckerstaff, 12, Enfield Street, i papier, head injuries, serious. Mrs. -Elizabeth Bailey, 11a, McVay .-Street, Napier, fractured leg, satisfactory. . , Mrs. Mary Jane Dumble, Meanee, Napier, shock, satisfactory. Helen. Mansfield, appendix trouble. Mi-gg Molly Roche, 74, ' Munro Street, : Napier, concussion, satisfactory. Mrs'. Deborah Stoiey, 207, Avenue Road, T Hastings,, fractured leg, satisfactory. <j. Albert Stock, no address, leg injuries, , , satisfactory. Mrs. Mary Watson, 207, Avenue Road, Hastings, satisfactory. Sister Vergln, Hastings Convent, internal complaint, satisfactory. : A progress report, covering patients whose admission was reported yesterday, is as follows: — urigg Annie Anderson, formerly serious, >"• how * satisfactory. Nurse Jean Borthwick, scalp wounds and abrasions, quite Frederick Bowen, formerly very serious, . now serious. WilUam. Blewett,. formerly very serious, : now satisfactory. Mrs., Emma Berry, formerly serious, now '* satisfactory. Kenneth' Brbwn, fractured leg, serious. Percy Chang, formerly serious, now satifl- • factory.' " • .; ' Itffaa! Kitty Carroll, formerly serious, now satisfactory. Patrick Joseph Devine, formerly very serious, now serious, ; Neville Drake, formerly serious, now satisfactory. Mrs. Janet Etheridge, formerly very serious, - now serious. Miss Mavis Faulkner, formerly very ' serious, now serious. William Fulton, fractured pelvis, formerly serious, now fair. James Fltzpatrick, formerly serious, now satisfactory. Mrs. Ina May Henderson, formerly serious, now dangerously ill. Lewis Leopold Kelly, formerly very serious, now dangerously ill. George McKenzie, heart condition serious. Archibald McGregor, broken ribs. Stanley Newlands, injured foot, operation to-day, - serious. - ! Richard Patrick O'Sulllvan, additional injuries- to kpee and foot, satisfactory. Jack Ryan, crushed ribs, satisfactory. Mrs. Alice Solmonsen, head injuries. Campbell D. Smith, compound fractnre lower leg, serious. Mrs. Nellie Truman, formerly serious, now satisfactory. Edward Neil Whitten, crushed ribs. THE NURSES' HOME. EARLY REPORTS CORRECTED. SIX OR SEVEN DEATHS. " i < Contradiction of reports to the effect that more than 20 nurses attached to the Napier Hospital perished when the nurses' home collapsed was made by Mr. Leonard J. Stevens, solicitor, of Auckland, who returned from the stricken districts last evening. " Mr Stevens, who spent 30 hours in Napier arid Hastings, left Auckland for Hawke's 13ay on Tuesday afternoon. He stated that he had been in conversation With the , chairman of the Napier Hospital Board, Mr. Charles Morse, who had informed him that the board had accounted for all the members of its staff kilted^ 11 ° nly SbC ° r SeVe ° had been a •••