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Historic HB: Masonic Hotel barmen perish in quake 14 May, 2021 06:00 PM 4 minutes to read Sailors look for bodies in the ruins of Napier s Masonic Hotel in February 1931 . Photo / Supplied Sailors look for bodies in the ruins of Napier s Masonic Hotel in February 1931 . Photo / Supplied Hawkes Bay Today By: Michael Fowler One of Napier s most prominent buildings to succumb to the February 3, 1931, Hawke s Bay earthquake was the Masonic Hotel. The photo shows sailors doing body recoveries at the Masonic Hotel. One of the employees of the hotel, a barman, David Evans, died trying to escape the building. A family story is told that his sister-in-law Gert Begley went with his son, Noel, about three days after the earthquake to try and find him. Sailors helped and located his body under the rubble.