APPEAL FOR PLANE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 114, 7 February 1935, Page 9

APPEAL FOR PLANE

Sick Wojnan at Norfolk Island TRANSPORT TO AUSTRALIA (Received February 6. 10.30 p.m.) Melbourne, February 6. An urgent appeal has been received from Norfolk Island for an aeroplane to convey a sick woman to Australia for medical attention and ample funds are available for the venture. Sir ' iarles Kingsford Smith was approached and said he would gladly go, but there was no suitable landing ground at Norfolk Island and a seaplane was'-necessary. It is understood that negotiations a.re proceeding to divert the Makura, now en route from New Zealand., FEARED LOST AT SEA Parer and (Received February 6, 10.30 p.m.) Rangoon, February C. Parer and Hemsworth have not been beard of since leaving Mergui on January 30. It is feared they have been lost at sea. Last week Barer and Hemsworth were missing for three days between Mergui and Victoria Point, after having made a forced landing. They are two Australian pilots who had been flying in New Guinea until shortly before the Centenary Air Race. They started ia the race flying a Fairy Fox, similar to that in which Baines and Gilman crashed, entered by the New Guinea Flight Syndicate, bat abandoned the race at Paris. They intended, they said, to continue to Australia as flying tourists. Parer achieved world fame for his flight from England to Australia with Mclntosh in 1919-20. LAST SEEN NEAR RAMBANG ( Received February 7, 1.40 a.m.) Sydney, February 6. , The Rangoon message about Parer is apparently incorrect, as a Darwin message to-night states that Parer and Hemsworth accompanied the air-mail plane Athena from Singapore, but they parted in the vicinity -of Bambang, since when the plane lias not been reported.