AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 5

AVIATION

FUNERALS OF THE VICTIMS. OF BYRON BAY FATALITY. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, September 30. The funerals of two of the Byron Bay air victims, Captain Holden and Dr Hamilton, took, place to-day. A most impressive memorial sen-ice was held at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, of which the victims were old boys, and where there were deposited many carloads of beautiful wreaths, .which later were transferred to the City Cenotaph, and drew an enomous crowd.

Eighteen aeroplanes flew in formation over Rook wood cemetery, where the cremation of the victims was carried out.- They dipped to salute. The pilots of the machines were former close friends of, the dead airmen,. V -The officiating clergyman, Canon few. ard Lee, in paying a tribute to the "deceased, eaidi that these two men hjid had beautiful modesty, Captain Holden, In partlouliwy was a very gallant man, who would have made a wonderful conquest of the air. . He had remembered Dr Hamilton once saying: “Yes, .aviation is dangerous, but there is no progress without danger.’’

SEARCH FOR “SMITHY” RECALLED (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 20. The airmen’s funeral, tragically recalled of the crew of four, Holden, Hamilton, Mitchell, and Stannage of the airliner Canberra, which found Smithy’s party in north-west Australia in April, 1929, but only one is now alive, the radio operator Stannage, residing at Adelaide. Mitchell was killed on June 16, in an experimental flight in a monoplane specially built for crossing the Tasman to New Zealand.

LIEUT. STAINFORTH INJURED. ' RUGBY, Septemer 20. Flight-Lieut. Stainforth, the Schneider Trophy pilot, was injured in a flying mishap while alighting in a field at Lizard, in Cornwall, where ha is the. guest of a well-known airman, the Master of Sempill. His passenger also received injuries.