AT HOLMANS SLIP
   Mrs VERNA HOLMAN
   LIONEL CLIVE HOLMAN

On the morning of the Murchison Earthquake, Walter
(Sonny) Holman had taken his cream across the river
by the bridge which was the only access to his dairy
farm in the Lower Maruia Valley.  When the earthquake
struck, he looked across to his house to see his wife,
Verna, rush out to the verandah and snatch up Lionel,
their infant son.  As she did so the hill behind the house collapsed and swept them, house and all into the river.