PLANE NOSE-DIVES
Four Killed And One Hurt In Queensland Crash
Brisbane, December 3.
Four people were killed and one injured when an aeroplane crashed on the Yeppoon side of t'he mouth of Barwell Creek, near Rockhampton, yesterday afternoon. The dead are:—James Hayes, aged 54; his son, John Hayes, aged 32; his daughter, Valda Hayes, aged 18; and Kathleen Weaber, aged.. 10. Owen Weaber, aged 20, the pilot, brother of Kathleen Weaber, was injured.
The party left Mount Morgan in a plane which was owned by Weaber to spend the day at Yeppoon. After taking off from Mie beach the plane appeared to be in difficulties and was unable to gain altitude. Suddenly it nose-dived, went into a spin, and crashed 200 ft. to the beach. Messrs. James and John Hayes suffered frightful head injuries and were killed instantly. Miss Hayes and Miss Weaber died in hospital. Valda Hayes was the holder of an A class licence and was the youngest woman pilot of the Royal Queensland Aero Club.
QUIET WEDDING
Lady Kingsford Smith And
Blr. Alan Tully
.Melbourne, December 3.
The wedding was celebrated quietly yesterday afternoon of Lady Kingsford Smith, widow of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, and Mr. Alan Tully.
PICTURESQUE WEDDING
London, December 2.
The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, the noted amateur boxer, was married to Lady Elizabeth Percy, the eldest daughter of the Duchess of Northumberland, at a picturesque ceremony in St. Giles’s Cathedral, Edinburgh. The bridegroom’s brother. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, was unable to be present owing to indisposition due to overwork as a flying instructor at Humble, as a result of which he has been ordered to rest. He is to leave for New Zealand on December 4.
Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton will arrive in New Zealand by tin 1 Wniwera on January 6 to arrange a tour by a party of English public schoolboys. He intends to pilot a chartered aeroplane through the Dominion. The party will first, visit Canada and then New Zealand and Australia.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 60, 4 December 1937, Page 11
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