HOPE ABANDONED

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 155, 29 December 1936, Page 4

HOPE ABANDONED

LATE MR. C. T. P. ULM

WIDOW'S VISIT TO N.Z,

All hope of her husband being alive has now been abandoned by Mrs. C. T. P. Ulm, who arrived at Auckland recently by the Maunganui from Sydney on a holiday visit to friends in New Zealand. The second anniversary of Mr. Ulm's misadventure when attempting to fly from California to Sydney fell on December 4, shortly before Mrs. Ulm left Sydney, and she, said that she could not but know that her husband was dead. \

She referred to the report of the captain of the Port Darwin when he arrived at Sydney last July that he had sighted a castaway, on the island of Motu Iti, about thirty miles from Tahiti, which he thought was uninhabited. As a result of the action of the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. J. A. Lyons, in asking the Tahitian authorities what they proposed to do to investigate this report, it was stated that a group of Tahitians lived on the island and that a concessionaire, or inspector, would make a visit there at the end of July.

"But I heard nothing more," said Mrs. Ulm, "and I do not know whether the inspector made his visit and reported to the French officials or not. However, it did not seem likely that my husband could have come to be on the island."

Among those Mrs. Ulm hopes to visit in New Zealand before leaving for Australia on January 23 is Mrs. E. A. Skilling, whose husband was navigator and wireless operator with Mr. Ulm in the Star of Australia when it was forced down somewhere south of Honolulu, according to Mr. Ulm's wireless messages.

Mrs. Ulm also intends to visit the New Plymouth aerodrome to see the tablet placed there as. a memorial to the famous Australian airman, who landed at New Plymouth after his first flight across the Tasman in the Faith in Australia. . • .