CLIPPER DISASTER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 42, 18 January 1938, Page 6

CLIPPER DISASTER.

APPRECIATION OF SYMPATHY. MEMORIAL PROPOSED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 17. The Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) torday received the following telegram from Mr Harold Gatty, the representative in New Zealand and Australia of Pan-American Airways Corporation: “The officials of Pan-American Airways have requested me to convey to you their appreciation of the expressions of sympathy shown by the Government and people of New Zealand and respectfully wish to inform you that a very deep impression has been made upon the American people by the expressions of the common bond of sympathy in the recent disaster.” " The Government considers that the loss of Captain Edwin Musick and his companions should. be marked by some form of memorial in the Dominion, the Prime Minister said to-day, and preliminary plans have already been discussed. It is thought probable that the memorial wil take the form of. a radio beacon for the direction of aircraft arriving at Auckland. Mr Savage said he believed there would be a general feeling in favour of a memorial to the men who commenced the first commercial air service to New Zealand. One suggestion was that the memorial should he in the form of a beacon; he considered it a sound one. Radio beacons were necessary to air services, and the dedication of one to the memory of the American airmen would make an appropriate memorial.