Mount Maunganui Landslide Victims Were Long-Time Friends

A woman named Susan Knowles, 71, was killed in a landslide at Mount Maunganui while on her annual summer camping trip with her friend, Jacqualine Suzanne Wheeler, also 71. The two had a long-standing tradition of camping together every summer, renting a caravan for about a month each year. Alison Holtom, a friend of Knowles for nearly a decade, visited the site to pay her respects and laid flowers in her honor. They were among six individuals buried under the rubble.

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