FLYING-BOAT MISSING

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23967, 7 June 1943, Page 4

FLYING-BOAT MISSING

. CHRISTCHURCH MEN ON BOARD

FLIGHT OVER SEA ON SATURDAY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 6. A flying boat of the Royal New Zealand Air Force has been reported missing on a sea flight on Saturday with a crew of seven and eight passengers. Extensive searches have been and are being carried out. Missing are:— CREW Squadron Leader Ronald Bruce Leslie MacGregor, A.F.C. Wife, Mrs R. L. MacGregor, Christchurch, Flying Officer Jack Eric Morison. Father, Mr G. L. Morison, Wellington. Pilot Officer Douglass Edmund Wood. Wife, Mrs Rona Wood, Auckland. Flight Sergeant Gordon Marsh Adie. Wife, Mrs M. F, Adie, Christchurch. Flight Sergeant Bruce Alexander God. ley Bond, Wife, Mrs M, Bond, Alberta, Canada. (Father, Mr E. Bond, Waipawa.) Leading Aircraftsman Hector Alexander Gordon McGregor. Mother, Mrs A. G. McGregor, Palmerston North. Leading Aircraftsman Ivan James Waidie. Father, Mr R. G. Waldie. Ti : maru. PASSENGERS Flight Lieutenant Maxwell William McCormick. Mother, Mrs A. A. McCormick, Auckland. Flight Lieutenant' John Robert Mills Nicholson (medical officer). Mother, Mrs E. J. Nicholson, Christchurch. Flying Officer Alan Edmund- .Wilkie Bradmore. Wife, Mrs I. A. Bradmore, Auckland. Sergeant Henry Martin Kennedy. Wife, Mrs J. A. Kennedy, Auckland. , Leading Aircraftsman Eric Samuel Fuddle. Wife, Mrs M. A. Puddle, Auckland. Leading Aircraftsman John Wilfred Russell. Wife, Mrs A. E. Russell, Pukekphe. Captain N. J. Paltridge (New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board). Wife, Mrs Paltridge, Wellington. Mr M. J. Scott (Agriculture Department). Wife, Mrs Scott, Wellington,