A V IATION
SOUTHERN CROSS
A MISTAKEN DIRECTION
(Unit ed Pre3s Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) PERTH. May 10.
A message has been received by the Chief Secretary from Captain Crane, who was sent from Wyndham to oigntiiso native imiTics to search for th 6 Southern Cross which shows that the Southern Cross could have descended at Drysdalc Mission, but mistook the beckoning of the missionaries to come down, to he an indication that WyndliMin was in a south-west-erly direction.
The message which Smith dropped from the plane for direction had not then been seen. It was found three days later.
AIRPLANE MISSING. TOKYO, May 9. Three naval airplanes when living were separated during a storm on .Wednesday and one is missing.
SCRAPPING AEROP LANES. MELBOURNE, May 10
Of five Air Force aeroplanes sent into Cnetral Australia to search lor the missing aviators recently only two arc likely to return to Point Cool base. Two have already been written off as scrapped owing to engine faults and the third was burned after escorting the packhorse party hack to Vavc Hill.
MOTH'S PROGRESS. DELHI, May 9. Moir and Owen arrived at Akyah and later departed for Burma.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1929, Page 6
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