AUSTRALIAN NEWS
BURIAL OE AIR LINER VICTIMS. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) BRISBANE, March 4 In torrential rain, which made il difficult for the 24 persons present to keep their feet on the steep mountain slope, the remains of the. two pilots and two passengers who were killed in the Stinson crash were buried neai the wreck. The service embraced the fifth victim, Westray, whose body still lay in the gorge below. A sister Stinson .machine circled overhead- and dropped wreaths through the clouds and rain. A police party went to the spot where Westray was killed, and upon return expressed the opinion that ; -t would be too dangerous to attempt, to carry the body down, and that it would, probably have to toe tinned where it was.
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Grey River Argus, 5 March 1937, Page 6
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