Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

STEEP DROP IN CUSTOMS DUES

(U.PA. bv Elec. Tel: ...Copyright,) ' CANBERRA, Jan. 2.

Customs.- revenue for the six months tlie estimate.

THREE FISHERMEN DROWNED

(U P.A by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) (Received Jariv 2CT.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 2.

Three experienced' , fishermen at Cape Hawke, ’ North' Coast were drowned this afternoon on. Lake Wallis during a . violent thunderstorm. The victims; were Arthur Prior, aged 67, and two nephews, Geoffrey Prior, 25, and Stanley Hart. 27, The men were crossing the lake in a fishing launch ■ heavily loaded with, paraplienalia from the New Year day sports kiosk, when the craft sank. Eyewitnesses 'were unable to Icrnl anv assistance, to tlie fury of the storm and .-tbe fact that then boats were too small.

MISSING IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

(U r* A. by Elec. Tol. Copyright) (Received Jan. 2, 11 p.m. , SYDNEY. Jan. 2. » The aviator Pittendrugh and. the mining expert Hamre, are still missing in Central Australia. They had several gallons of water, but not mncli Food. ; Pittendrngh was totally unfamiliar with the country, and there is not a solitary homestead within hundreds of miles. . ' An Air Force airplane piloted by Flight-Lieut. Eaton left' Alice Springs to-day to search the whole Ilbiiba plain.

This article text was automatically generated and may include errors. View the full page to see article in its original form.
Permanent link to this item

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19310103.2.38

Bibliographic details

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 5

Word Count
201

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 5