LIEUTENANT ANDERSON STILL MISSING

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10052, 18 April 1929, Page 3

LIEUTENANT ANDERSON STILL MISSING

SEVERAL AEROPLANES SEARCHING PETROL FOR THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Sydney, April 17 Captain Les Holden, in the air liner Canberra, left Wyndham this afternoon to continue his search for Lieutenant Keith Anderson and his mechanic, Mr R. S. Hitchcock, who are missing somewhere northwest of Woodford, Northern Territory, in the aeroplane Kookaburra, Captain Holden’s task is hampered by the'fact that his maps are inadequate. Yesterday he left Derby to search for the Kookaburra, but having got as far as Hall's Creek returned to Wyndham to have the iadio generator on his machine, repaired. The airman said all the fires seen from the Canberra on her flight of 500 miles yesterday had been investigated. None revealed any trace of Lieutenant Anderson and his companion. The two Royal Australian Air Force aeroplanes which are also engaged in the search, have arrived at Alice Springs, 100 miles south-east of Woodford, where the Kookaburra was last seen on Wednesday, April 10, on the way to search for the Southern Cross. The pilots will operate from there. Captain Mathesun, pilot of the Goulburn Aero Club’s Moth aeroplane, is having his machine repaired at Duchess. He hopes to join in the search on Monday. Sydney, April 17 Captain Heath was to fly to-day from Derby to the mud fiat near the Glenelg River, where the crew of the Southern Cross are stranded. Ho proposed to take to them a supply of petrol. It is expected that the ground there will be dry enough to-mor-row to permit of the Southern Cross taking the air. If so she will he flown to Derby. Natives from the Port George IV mission station are now helping Squadron-Leader Kingsford Supland his party to clear a runway for the monoplane to take off.