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VICTIM TO HUGE SEA. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, July 3, The log of the steamer Koranui, which was submitted to the Navigation Department to-day, states that she sighted the Christina Fraser at 1.50 a.m. on June 24 seven and a-liait miles south of Gabo in a howling gait. The two vessels were a mile apart, and both were hove to. The Koranui’s master saw a huge sea suddenly blot out the Christina Fraser’s lights, after which there was no sign of the latter. SEARCH PLANE CRASHES. MELBOURNE, July 3. A monoplane piloted by Alexander Barlow and two passengers began a flight at dawn to-day from Sale aerodrome to make a final search for the overdue Christina Fraser. The machine, however, travelling at one hundred miles an hour, struck a tree during a sudden fog. Portions of the monoplane fell to earth, while the remainder travelled’ for one hundred yards further, where it crashed. The three occupants, suffering only from, shock and abrasions, crawled out of the wreckage.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1933, Page 5
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