THE NAPIER CASUALTIES

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1931, Page 7

THE NAPIER CASUALTIES

FOUR BODIES IDENTIFIED.

TOTAL NOW FIXED AT 144.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Napier, Last Night. Four more identifications of human remains have been made by the police. A body found in the boot shop of F. Thorpe and Co., Hastings Street, has been been identified as that of Thomas Atkinson, aged 37, bootmaker and repairer for the firm. Atkinson was a married man with four children. Property found with remains recovered near Haynes’ 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 alonside two female bodies recovered from the footpath in front of McGruer’s Ltd. in Emerson Street contained one piece bearing a number, which proved to be that of a Post Office Savings Bank account. This has led to the conclusion that the two bodies were those of Misses Ruth and Jane Bryson, two elderly ladies of Sealy Road, Napier, who were known to have been in the locality at the time of the,earthquake. Revision of the total list of dead brings the number to 119 identified and 25 unidentified, making 144 altogether. The total was previously given at 145, but it was found that one name had been duplicated.