POSTED MISSING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 3

POSTED MISSING

NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE FLVING-BOAT

FIFTEEN PERSONS ON BOARD.

INCLUDING EIGHT PASSENGERS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

A flying-boat of the R.N.Z.A.F. lias been reported missing on a sea flight on June 5, with a crew of seven and eight passengers. Extensive searches have been and are being carried out.

The missing and their next of kin are:— Crew

Squadron Leader Ronald Bruce Leslie MacGregor, A.F.C. Mrs R. L. MacGregor, 22 Ham Road, Christchurch (w).

Flying Officer Jack Eric Morison. Mr G. L. Morison, 80 Ross Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington (f). Pilot Officer Douglas Edmund Wood. Mrs Rona Wood, 26 Burleigh Street, Mt. Eden, Auckland (w); Mr L. T. Wood, 1.3 Beverly Hill, Timaru (f). Flight Sergeant Gordon Marsh Adie. Mrs M. F. Adie, 63 Westenra Street, Avonside, Christchurch (w).

Flight Sergeant Bruce Alexander Godley Bond. Mrs M. Bond, 1505 Scotland Street, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (w); Mr E. Bond, c/o W. T. Kitto, Rotowai Station, Waipawa (f). Leading Aircraftman Hector Alexander Gordon McGregor. Mrs A. G. McGregor, 142 College Street, Palmerston North (m). Leading Aircraftman Ivan James Waldie. Mr R. G. Waldie, 3 South Street, Timaru (f). Passengers. Flight Lieutenant Maxwell William McCormick. Mrs A. A. McCormick, 44 Taupiri Street, Orakei, Auckland (m). Flight Lieutenant John Robert Mills Nicholson (medical officer). Mrs E. J. Nicholson, 73 Rossall Street, Christchurch (m).

Flying Officer Alan Edmund Wilkie Bradmore. Mrs I. A. Bradmore, c/o Mrs L. Sharpe. 1 Te Marama Road, Ellerslie, Auckland (w).

Sergeant Henry Martin Kennedy. Mrs J. A. Kennedy, 31 Castle Street, Grey Lynn, Auckland (w).

Leading Aircraftman John Wilfred Russell. Mrs A. E. Russell, Victoria Street, Pukekohe (w).

Captain N. J. Paltridge (National Patriotic Fund Board). Mrs Paltridge, c/o Mrs L. Noad, 98 The Terrace, Wellington (w). Mr M. J. Scott (Department of Agriculture). Mrs Scott, 10 Hataitai Road, Hataitai, Wellington (w).

Squadron Leader R. B. L. MacGregor, who was awarded the Air Force Cross in Che Birthday Honours last week, was prominent, in civil aviation before the war as a member of the Wairarapa Aero Club and a pilot with Union Airways. He joined the R.N.Z.A.F. immediately war began as a flying officer. He was commanding officer of a wireless and electrical school flight in the South Island, and later had flying duties at a North Island station. He was posted overseas in 1941 and has had long service in the Pacific. Flying Officer Morison, who is 21 years of age, joined the R.N.Z.A.F. in May, 1941. He was educated at Rongotai College and then joined the housing construction section of the State Advances Department. Captain N. J. Paltridge was last month appointed as representative of the National Patriotic Fund Board in Tonga. He was born and educated in Auckland. He has had managerial experience in business, and for two and a half years was with the Y.M.C.A. on war service work. . Mr M. J. Scott is superintendent of the pig industry, Department of Agriculture, and for the last year has been organiser of primary production councils throughout the Dominion. He joined the department about nine years ago. Before that he was lecturer in chemistry at Lincoln Agricultural College. He served in the last war and lost a leg.