"FLYING PREACHER" LOST
Beceiv-ed -TMi?sday, 8.5 p.m. DARWIN, Jan. 16. The "flying preacher," Captain Victor Peterson, of the Salvktion Army, is missing in the rough mountainous country near Wyndham in Northwest Australia. He left Wyndham on Tuesday afternoon to fty 46 miles to Denham River and has not been seen since. An R.A.A.F. Dakota is searching the area for traces of his Tiger Moth machine. A number of big cattle stations which have been contacted by pedal wireless report 110 news of him. Captain Peterson, who is a former R.A.A.F. padre, flies arotmd the stations in the Northern Territory and West Australia conducting church services. He was lost one year ago and was found on a salt pan after a search lasting for four days.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1947, Page 5
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