AIR CRASH

Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1930, Page 5

AIR CRASH

f the plane recovered

NO SIGN OF BODIES

(Australian Press Association)

MELBOURNE. Jan. 7

Divers searched the spot, and. finally abandoned the task. '

The Widgeon plane was a battered and tangled mass, held together merely by the bracing wires. :

Captain Grosvenor was the only son of the Second Baron Stalbridge, and was therefore the heir to the baronetcy. TRIBUTE TO AIRMAN. (Received this dnv at 9. 'a.mA LONDON, January 7. The “Daily Express” in an editorial entitled “A Gallant Youth” says of Captain Grosvenor, “not the length of life matters but what amount of high spirited adventure is crowded in. Grosvenor rode in the Grand National twice and was equally adventurous in the hunting field. He was a hard hitting boxer and completed arfeight thousand miles trip round Australia in a light plane. That is the stuff, thank God, of which Britons are still made.” The “Daily Mail” in a similar editorial entitled" “A'Noble Exploit” says “Grosvenor was a man who loved to face danger, ,He was. proverbial for Dis (faring.' Such examples prove that youths .of the post-war generation are ns valiant’and unselfish ns the soldiers in the trenches.”

The Widgeon flying boat which fell into Port Phillip Bay yesterday, was raised to the surface to-day, but there was no trace of the three victims.