IN MEMORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1934, Page 9

IN MEMORY.

WREATH IN SEA. ULM AND HIS PARTY. Australian Praise for U.S. Search. "WILL NEVER FORGET." (railed r.A.—Electric Telegraph— CopyriglHi (Received 10 a.m.) HONOLULU, December. 28. A wreath of Australian flowers was dropped from the Matson liner Monterey at 11 a.m. to-dny into the sea 300 miles eastward of Honolulu in memory of Messrs. Ulm, Littlejolm Mild Skilling, avlio •were lost in (lie British monoplane Star oi: Australia betAvecn Oakland (California) and Honolulu. Captain Joliaiison said tlie wreath was niaile in Sydney and carried in the ship's chilling room. For the ceremony the Monterey stopped while passengers and crew assembled for a short service. "Taps" was sounded as the wreath was lowered into the sea. Messrs. David Yaffa and Kenneth G. Hall, of Sydney, friends of Mr. Ulm, were to speak at the service. On sailing from Honolulu Captain Johanson said: "We are paying homage to a man who furthered commercial aviation, with which modern steamship enterprises are in closest sympathy.'' Messrs. Yaffa and Hall issued a statement which read as follows:—■" Australia was deeply moved by the line search, which was made by the American services and public. The great sympathy shown by America has brought the two nations closer together, and Australia will never forget the humane gesture." Tho motor schooner Lanakai, which was chartered by Mrs. Ulm to search for her husband and his companions, is calling at small islands westward of Honolulu, but so far no traces of the wrecked 'plane have been found.