THE HUTCHINSONS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1932, Page 5

THE HUTCHINSONS

UNENVIABLE TIME IN ICEBERG-RIDDEN SEA. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received .this day at 9.30 a.in.) •LONDON, September 15. Hutchinson, wirelessing the British united press from Angmagsaiik say®: “Endeavouring to pass under bad weather, w, e flew at an altitude of fifty feet between icebergs. Out windshield was covered with ice and we found that we wer e unabl e to outride the gale. Therefore we descended on the rough sea between icebergs. - The ice dented'one pontoon, and : the crew were quickly drenched. The ■anchor would not grip, so we taxied ashore. The children were not afraid and there was no sign of tears throughout the most hazardous moments. The party, huddled together in a cave and spent two uncomfortable and bitterly cold nights until the last of the fuel was used as a flare and attracted the Lord Talbot. The party earlier , had a tantalising experience hearing messages froth searching ships to which they were unable to r e ply owin& to the swamping of the machine damaging the transmitter. Wg boarded the lifeboat as a huge iceberg crashed into fragments our plane,” An Angmagsaiik message aays that the Hutchinsons are departing for England to-day .aboard the Lord Talbot.

INQUEST INTO FATALITIES.

LONDON, September 15,

An inquest was conducted regarding the aeroplane tragedy near London in which the young airman Bottom, liis mother and another were killed, when the plane came down afire. The verdict was one of misadventure. An expert expressed the opinion that there had been a failure in the fuselage, due, possibly, to damage resulting from an abnormally heavy landing on some occasion. All of the occupants, he said, would be thrown out in mid air. AID FOR THE HUTCHINSONS. LONDON, September 15. Tlie “Daily Herald.” anxious to save the flying Hutchinson family, from , the rigorous Arctic winter, has arranged that the trawler, Lord Talbot, shall bring .them to Thurso. Thence they will entrain to London. Hutchinson has wirelessed acceptance of the offer.