“SMITHY’S” FATE MAY BE KNOWN SOON
I [Per Press Association. Copyright .] | AUCKLAND, This Day. j “I expect to hear any day now of j the fate that overtook my brother,” j said Mr R. H. Kingsford-Smith, of j Oakland, California, a passenger by the Aorangi. “That is if he was killed,” he added. To that implied hope, Mr Kingsford-Smith did not give give concurrence. “There is no hope of that. I think he is gone,” he said, “The belief now is that my brother slapped the cliff of a little island of Aye, in the Gulf of Andaman,” said Mr KingsfordSmith. “When he was last seen, by Jimmie Melrose, lie was going in that direction.” He added that an expedition was setting out to explore the cliff and sea ! bottom when the monsoon season was over. Mr and Mrs Kingsford-Smith will spend a short holiday in Auck- 1 land with their daughter, Mrs John' Stan n age,
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Northern Advocate, 29 November 1937, Page 6
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