STOP PRESS ITEMS

Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 10

STOP PRESS ITEMS

SEARCH FOR MISSING AIRMEN. ..ti'ge search organisation commenced to-day to comb the Tararnas and all the rough country about the I’iinutakas and other ranges. Wlier it is possible the missing aviators may have come down, supposing that they actually did effect the crossing of the Tasman, much of the giour'd has been undertakenby the Tararua Tramping Club, and partus are out also from Levin. Poatherstou. and Masterton. !t is believed that fully TOO men are already oil the bills, and many of the parties will be out, for two days. A number ol Rovers (senior scouts') ate .included among the searchers, and experienced bushmen are also operating. Captain Findlay’s ’plane is accompanied by Mr J. Kawnsley. who knows the country thoroughly, and can give exact directions for an aid party to reach any given spot. ' Both Captain Bucklev and Captain Findlay continued their aeroplane hunts for the missing men this morning, and returned to their bases with nothing to report, Both covered wide areas. Buckley did the coast south, and this afternoon goes north as far as Egmont. Press Association. LONDON FLOODS. LONDON, January 12.--After personal inquiries in the London Hood area, Mr Baldwin has summoned a conference of Government departments and local authorities for the 16th inst. to discuss measures for preventing a recurrence of the disaster. TO BE BURIE 3 IN THE ABBEY. LONDON, January 12.—The remains of Air Thomas Hardy will he cremat'd and buried in Westminster Abbey on Monday aUcnioon, although previously he had expressed a wish to he buried at Stinsiord with ins lamily. BRICK WALL COLLAPSES—TWO MEN KILLED. Two men were Fatally injured when a brick wall collapsed ni ■. he tinder yards of C. 10." Otlcy and Co. Their names "arc ,W. Clark, of I'iS George street. New Brighton, and C Njxon, whose address is mi far unknown. A third man, A. Johansen, of 91 Nursery road, Is in the hospital with his right leg badly crushed and other injuries.: The rescue work took some time. Clark was the last to he reached,; hitet; ever two hours’ work by sixty men, —Christchurch Press Association*