AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1930, Page 5

AVIATION

HOOK’S FATE

HIS BODY FOUND

l United Press Association—By Electric v Telegraph—Copyright, j RANGOON, July 30, Tim search expedition has diecov. ered the body of the airman Hook, companion of Matthews, whose plane was lost in the Buman jungle,

NOT YET CONFIRMED. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m ) ‘ RANGOON, July 30. Up to the present nothing is known in official circles regarding the finding of ! Hook’s body.

BODY BADLY MAULED,

(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. The “Daily Mail’s” Rangoon correspondent says: Burmese carriers after many forced marches brought the news of the finding of Hook’s body, terribly maulted, either by a tiger or a leopard. Although the body was little more than a skeleton, there was no doubt of the identity .He was found naked. The expedition wrapped the body in ground sheets and took it to Prone for interment. The searchers had a gruelling time generally, waist deep and, even chest deep in water of raging streams. It is recalled that Matthews left Hook on the bank of a mountain river, which rose and washed him away. Hook undoutedly was then dead. A curious coincidence is that the body was eventually left high and dry by the receding torrent, only a furlong from the spot where Matthews met the villagers.

FLIGHT TO ENGLAND

ATTEMPT AT HINKLER’S RECORD (Received this dav at 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 31. Gerald Pentland, a Sydney airman, left Mascot aerodrome at 6.30 this morning ;for England, in an attempt to heat Hinkler’s time between the two countries. Pentland is flying an Australian machine called “Cenairco”. He i s well known in flying circles rn Australia and has a splendid air war record./