Rescue Parties Active.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 7

Rescue Parties Active.

Australian Press Association.

Chances Of Flying The Kookaburra

SYDNEY, April 22. Morning messages from Wavo Hill lndieate that tlie body found under the Kookaburra plano was Ande'rson's. The position is about 1U0 miles west of J'owell's Creek. The nature of the country is making tho chances oi rescue of tho second man more hopcful. The Danvin radio reports that a pack horse party with black trackers left Wave. llili this morning to join m tho search. Pilot Brain, who discovered the Kookaburra, says it will take several days for a camel party to reach the spot, and it will nced to be furnished with supplies by aeroplane, owing to ihe harren nature of tlie country. A landing ground could be clearcd near ilio stranded machine provided food and water for the workers were conveyed theroto hy plano. An Amalgamated Wirclcss message states that tlio Southern Cross was expected to take ofF from "Wyndham this aflernoon for a four hours' fli.ght. Some concern is folt at tho prolongerl aliseiico of Captain Matheson, in tlie Goulburn Aero Club's IMotli plane, who has nct reported since lie left Dnchess, near Cloncurry, Northern Queensland, 011 Saturday. He expected to reach the overland tclegrapb hue yesterday. Tlumgh no anxiety is folt, it is rccalled that the little jilane had trouble hcforo reaching Queensland and a telegrnm was sent bv the Dofenoe Department reealling Captain Matheson, but it arrived too late. Hitchcock was formerly a_ hairdresser and gold miner 111 Western Australia. He was invalided home during the war.