A Tiffany diamond bangle stuffed in a sock was among hundreds of items retrieved from Christchurch hotels abandoned during February’s earthquake and now returned to their owners, reports said last Wednesday.
Other pieces of abandoned luggage included thousands of dollars in foreign banknotes hidden in a fake soft drink can and a rare Steiff teddy bear belonging to an Australian child.
Hotel guests had to flee for their lives during the 6.3 tremor which claimed 181 lives, and leave their luggage in buildings which in some cases remained unsafe to enter for months, the New Zealand Herald reported.
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New Zealand Hotel Council executive officer Rachael Shadbolt told the newspaper that more than 750 pieces of luggage had been painstakingly recovered in recent weeks and sent to owners in 37 countries.
She said an Australian woman had emailed to thank her after getting back her shoe collection.
Scott Wallace, from the Millennium hotel group, said cranes were used to reach the upper floors of some hotels as staff worked with earthquake recovery specialists to retrieve the luggage.
Wallace said that one of the more unusual items recovered was a NZ$10,000 (NT$239,632) diamond Tiffany bangle belonging to a guest who had been traveling with an exclusive tour group.
(AFP)
上週三的一則報導指出，因二月的一場地震，被遺棄在基督城飯店內，現在被找回的數百件等待失主認領的物品中，發現一只包在短襪內的蒂芬妮鑽石手環，此手環已物歸原主。
其他在行李箱內發現被遺棄的物品，包括數千元藏在假飲料罐內的外鈔，以及屬於一位澳洲小孩的一隻罕見史泰福泰迪熊。
《紐西蘭先鋒報》報導，當造成一百八十一人身亡的芮氏規模六點三的地震來襲，房客必須逃命，不得不將行李留在建築物內，而有些建築物，因為不安全，數個月來都無法進入。
紐西蘭飯店協會執行長瑞秋‧莎德波爾特告訴該報說，超過七百五十件行李已在最近幾週辛苦地找到，並已將它們寄送給遍及三十七個國家的失主。
她說，一位澳洲女士在收到失而復得的鞋子後，已傳電子郵件給她，以示感謝。
千禧年飯店集團的史考特‧華樂斯說，飯店人員協同找回地震遺失物品的專家們一同尋找行李時，某些飯店高樓層地點搜尋起來實屬不易，還得借助起重機才能完成。
華樂斯說，找出的許多特殊物品中，有一件是要價一萬紐幣（新台幣二十三萬九千六百三十二元）的蒂芬妮鑽石手環，這是當時跟隨豪華旅行團旅遊的一位房客所擁有的。
（法新社／翻譯：林亞蒂）
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