MISS THOMPSON SAFE

Northern Advocate, 9 November 1934, Page 5

MISS THOMPSON SAFE

FOUND AT TENNENT’S CREEK INHOSPITABLE COUNTRY. LACK OF COMMUNICATION. 4 ______ [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.] (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 8. Grave fears were entertained for the safety of the Melbourne airwoman, Miss Freda Thompson, who recently flew from England to Australia, owing to the absence of any report from her since yesterday. However, these fears were allayed when a brief message from Darwin this evening stated .that Miss Thompson had been found at Tennant’s Creek. The Civil Aviation Department had ( issued urgent instructions to Mr Harold Owen, pilot at Darwin, to begin a search for the missing girl Immediately. The fact that the overland telegraph line is down in several places owing to recent rough weather would have rendered difficult a search for the girl. The only means of communicating with the North is by radio from Newcastle Waters.

The New Zealand airman, Mr C. E. Kay, who is now in Sydney, stated today: “Miss Thompson is lost where Piper and I were lost five years ago. It is most inhospitable country,”

MACHINE UNDAMAGED

RAN OUT OF PETROL.

(Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Miss Thompson was discovered by Constable Gordon Scott, of the Northern Territory Mounted Police, 16 miles from Tennant’s Creek, and about 600 miles from Darwin. She was safe, and her machine is undamaged. Constable Scott too|c Miss Thompson' to Tennant’s Creek, which she proposes to leave as soon as she can. get petrol. She said she ran out Of petrol while lost, and had landed in a clear space in sand and spinifex country. She spent the night by her plane. Constable Scott found her near the overland telegraph with the plane a short distance away.