SLANCE STORY
HOOD AND -UONCIUEFF
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, July 15
An extraordinary story is published here concerning a spiritualistic communication with Hood and Moncrieff, the ill-fatedvrO’asman fliers. William Trimming, ;<>f Mavrickville, lias informed the Civil Aviation Department that he was sitting in a seance when Hood spoke to him for five minutes, and said :—“We reached “Wellington, then we were lost in the clouds. We passed over the sea, and returned over the land. Our petrol ran out. We crashed in a gully two hundred yards from the coast, four miles south ot Ward, in Marlborough. We died four days later. Moncrieff was badly injured. I was not so bad. : I am in a sitting position, with Moncrieff’s head in my lap.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 3
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123SLANCE STORY Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 3
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