MISSING AIRMAN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 241, 25 July 1935, Page 6

MISSING AIRMAN

NO TRACE FOUND YESTERDAY. MANY PLANES SENT OUT. MIST AND STEADY RAIN. (Per Press Association). WAIPUKURAU, July 24. The search for the missing airman, Mr Hamisli Armstrong, has been continued without result. The radio base at Takapau, in the charge of Mr G. Taylor, assisted by Mr H. Etheridge, is being shifted to Kereru. Messrs F. Hunt and H. Roberts, who have been maintaining an outpost at Thompson’s mill, Ashley Clinton, will go to Kereru, the Utiku outpost, Messrs S. Hislop and R. King, have moved north to the Otupae station. Messrs Hartgill and Cyril Hunter, in charge of operations at Takapau, left for Hastings to assist in the arrangements for an extended search. In the meantime an endeavour will be made to send searchers by car to Hastings, over the Kuripapanga road toward Taihape, to operate the area between Wakarara, Kereru, Kuripapango, and Moawhanga. A report from Yeoman and Gardiner’s mill late this afternon showed that foot search parties, with the exception of that comprising the Barlow family, returned safely to the Wakarara base. No anxiety is felt, as the party’s members are familiar with the countryside.

No aeroplanes are traversing Central Hawke’s Bay. 'lt is still raining steadily, and the misty conditions are a special handicap. The weather is foggy to-night.

AUCKLAND PILOTS TO SEARCH.

OVER THE KAIMANAWA RANGE. AUCKLAND, July 24. Two Auckland Aero Club pilots, Mr D. M. Allan, chief instructor to the club, and Mr W. H. Lett, the club’s instructor for the Waikato district, are preparing to leave tomorrow in two Moth machines to join in the search for the missing airmail. They! are to make a search of the Kaimanawa range near Taupo, and to fly over the country south of Taupo from Taihape to Hastings. ’PLANES DELAYED BY WEATHER PALMERSTON NORTH, July 24. With steady rain falling flying conditions are very bad, and the hills around Eangiwahia are hooded with mist and cloud. The Manawatu Aero Club’s two aeroplanes were prevented from setting out this morning to search the western slopes of the Ruahines, hut the pilots intend to staid immediately suitable conditions prevail.