SHORT SEARCH BY SOUTHERN CROSS.
HEAT TERRIFIC IN DESERT. Received Sunday 7.0 p.m. SYDNEY, April 21. Southern Cross yesterday spent a few hours in the air, searching 50 miles north-east of Port George and the country en route to Wyndham, without finding the slightest trace of Anderson and Hitchcock. The organised search by - several aeroplanes of the West Australian and Queensland Airways companies, in addition to Air Force machines, is now proceeding from a base in Central Australia. Reports state that some of the country searched is desert and spinifex, with an entire absence of ‘water. The heat is terrific below 3000 feet.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6890, 22 April 1929, Page 7
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103SHORT SEARCH BY SOUTHERN CROSS. Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6890, 22 April 1929, Page 7
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