A WOODMAN'S JOKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1928, Page 7

A WOODMAN'S JOKE.

Story Of Missing Aviators

Sighted.

AN AMERICAN CANARD.

(Received 11 a.m.)

BANGOR (Maine), March 21

It was reported on Tuesday afternoon that a Canadian aeroplane searching for Captain Hinchcliffe and Miss Mackay, the missing British aviators, sighted what they believed was wreckage and two bodies on a mountain at Moosehend Lake region. The searchers were unable to land owing to rough country.

A detective, later, however, traced the rumour to "a joke by a woodman." —(A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")

LIEUT. KINKEAD'S DEATH.

HIGH SPEED ADVANTAGES. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 21. Sir Samuel Hoare, Air Minister, in reply to a question In the House of Commons said the late Lieutenant Kinkead, since 1927, had had experience with various types of aircraft. He tested his machine the day before he was killed. The Air Ministry had received no evidence that ethyl petrol fumes had anything to do with the accident.

Asked what was the practical advantage of flying at these high speed-3, Sir Samuel Hoare replied that it showed distinct advances in engines and the designs of aircraft and floats.

— (A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun."')