GROUND PARTY NEAR

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 9

GROUND PARTY NEAR

TEN MILES FROM SPOT

KINGSFORD SMITH'S ACCOUNT

United Press Association—By Electric Tele-

craphr-Copyrlght. : (.Received 27th April, noon.)

' ■"..; SYDNEY, This Day,. Tho latest advices from Wave Hill state that the ground party led by Lieutenant Eaton is within ten miles of the' Kookaburra. ■

The Canberra reached Bourke last night. Pilot Brain, in. the Atlanta, arrived at Brisbane after a trip of four hours ten minutes from Sydney,l thus beating by .ten minutes the late Keith Anderson's Sydney-Brisbane record. ; Interviewed iat Narromine, Kingsford Smith said that he flew the Southern Cross as low as fifteen feet above the Kookaburra. All members of the crew were quite definite that it was Anderson's body under tlio wing. Prom appearances ho had been dead many days. . ■. ' . . . ■

Smith and Ulm expressed delight that the Prime Minister had ordered a-full inquiry into the Circumstances attached to the forced .landings of the Southern >, Cross and Kookaburra. ' ,

Captain Matheson, in his Goulburn Moth, also .arrived at Narromine. Ho stated that had he not been marooned at Duchess, he would have been flying over the route taken by the Quantas 'plane at least eight 'days before its arrival at the area' for search', and would probably have sighted the Kookaburra in time to bring succour to its crew.