SOUTHERN CROSS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1929, Page 5

SOUTHERN CROSS

SMITHY’ FEARS

(Australian Press Association)

DERBY,' April 20

In a special interview, Kiugsfurd Smith said: “Although we said to each other wo must eventually get out of this all right, nevertheless, 1 knew from own purs..mil thoughts we all feared that the i.nly tiling found would be our dilapidated old Inis ami some bones. Alien we were sighted, Liteli and I. with tears in our eyes, bugged each other,- and said, ‘God bless old Les Holden.”

•SYDNEY. April 21.

The Southern yesterday spent a lew hours in the air searching for Anderson’s plaate in the locality fifty miles north-east -of Port George and in the country eii route to Wymlbam. The search met with not the slightest trace of Anderson and Hitchcock. An organised search by several aeroplanes el the West Australian and ,uocnslaml Airways Companies, in addition to Air Force machines, is now proceeding from, a base in Central Australia-

The reports state that some of the country that has been searched is desert. and more of if is spin ilex covered with an entire absence of water, while the heat there is terrific below a height of three thousand feet.

THE SOUTHERN CROSS

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Received this d»v nt JO n.m.i SYDNEY. April 22. rim states the .Southern Cross is falling into a serious state of disrepair. The main tank sump valves is leaking hadlv as a result of exposure. The wings are in a sad condition and almost dangerous. The monoplane may have to return to Sydney.