AN OLD IRON BOX

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 670, 24 October 1933, Page 5

AN OLD IRON BOX

MAY SOLVE MYSTERY OF AN OLD GERMAN EXPEDITION A LONG SEARCH Perth, October 15. The mysterious disappearance ih 1846 of the German explorer, Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt, after whoni the Sydney suburb is named, and his party, may be solved by a proposed expedition to the interior. An old iron box, of which wild blaeks have spoken on many occasions, may contain the secret of the vanished explorers. Sam Hazlett, well-known prospector, will leave Laverton shortly to make his second investngation of a theory of Leichhardt's disappearance which is held by Dr. C. W. Laver, o£ Kalgoorlie. Leichhardt and his party left North Queensland, to cross Australia frojn east to west. During the past 60 years, many" expeditions have endeavoured to find traces of the party. Dr. Laver bases- his theory of the location of Leichhardt's last resting place on numerous native reports of the existence of an iron box; which they cannot open, and waggon tyres and bullocks' horns in an unexplored part of the desert near the South Australian border. Hazlett left Laverton with a party last February to search for the articles, but after four months, was forced to turn back, through lack of water when within 100 miles of hjs objective. '