KOOKABURRA TRAGEDY
ATTEMPT TO RECOVER BODIES. TRUCK TO BE GUIDED BY PLANES. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, May 10. p' Mr Abbott, Minister of Northern Territories, has announced' that a 'I hornycroft truck, of the rigid sixwiieelcd variety, is leaving Oodnadatta shortly to make an eighty mile dash to the scene of the Kookaburra in order to bring back the bodies of Anderson jiiul Hitchcock.
Tin;* truck will have the terrible task of traversing the scrub, for which it- is specially suited. It will take six hundred gallons of water, and be directed by Air Force aeroplanes. The truck is performing the task free ol all cost.
Interviewed concerning the Drysdale Mission signal, Kingsford Smith said: •‘We attached the message to a pocket torch and Hew fifty feet over the mission station. We thought we saw it picked up by two people resembling aborigines, one of whom pointed smith-wesit. The other threw white objects like pieces of wood in the same direction. It is iust possible we were mistaken, and that instead of pointing t otlie ground, they were inviting us to land.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 5
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182KOOKABURRA TRAGEDY Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 5
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