Ten Miles Away

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 72, 27 April 1929, Page 5

Ten Miles Away

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

Australian Press Association.

SEARCHERS NEARLY THERE Kingsford=Smith Flies Over Kookaburra INQUIRY WELCOMED

tEeceived This JJay. Moon.) SYDNEY, 'Tins day. | The latest adviees from A\ ave Hill | j statc tliat the ground party, ied by ; Lieutenant Katon, is witliin ten miles ; of the Kookaburra. The Canberra reached Bourke last j niglit. Pilot Brain arrived at Brishane ; after a trip taking four hours and ten j minutes, tlius beating by ten minutes ' the late Captain Anderson's Syduey- j Brishane record. Interviewed at Narro Aliue, Squad-i ron-Leader Kingsford-Smitli said tliat; lie fiew the Houthern Cross as low asi 15 feet ahove the Kookaburra. All ! the members of the crew were quite ' definite that it was Anderson's bocly j under the wing. From appearanees he : had heen deail for many days. Both Smith and Ulm expressed delight tliat the Prime Alinister had or- j dered a ful] inquiry into tlie circumstances attaehed to the forced landing of the Southern C'ross and tlie Kookaburra. Captain Alatheson, in the Goulburn Moth, also arrived at Narromin-e. He stated that had he not heen mardoned at Ducliess, he woulcl have been flying over the route taken by the Quantaa phine at least eiglit days before its arrival at the area for the scarch, and would prpbably have sighted tho Ivoo- j kaburra «in time to bring succour to i its crew.