ANOTHER VIEW.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 21 May 1919, Page 5

ANOTHER VIEW.

IWAy HAVE BEEN PICKED UP

Oil AFiA)AT IN HIS OWN BOAT

(.ttecm-ed May 21, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. l'K:k>.« refuses to abandon hope and tlimJcs that Hawker may have been picked n L > by a vessel not fitted with wireless, -or b© afloat in his own ma- (! i_i 1 1« \f i fchoat. Pickles attributes the rtusJi;i[) r.u the exhaustion of petrol, owinj.-; to head winds encountered during Hie last: six hundred miles. The fact th;ii H;uvker started •in unfavorable \vc,'!ili(;r proves that lie was out not for bin. prize, but to give Britain the honor of the first crossing.