STRANDED KOOKABURRA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20242, 30 April 1929, Page 11

STRANDED KOOKABURRA.

LAND PARTY DELAYED.

FLIGHT OF SOUTHERN CROSS.

FORCED LANDING AND SEQUEL

BOARD SET UP TO INQUIRE. SYDNEY, April 29. News was received from Wave Hill, Northern Territory, to-day that the packhorse party which is proceeding to the stranded Kookaburra in tho desert was still at the last water-hole.

The Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. "C. W. C. Man - , lias ordered another party to set out from Newcastle Waters with caskets to recover the bodies of Lieutenant Anderson and Mr. R. S. Hitchcock.

A message from Canberra says the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, has announced the personnel of tho board which will investigate the circumstances of tho forced landings of the Southern Cross and Kookaburra, and the accident to the Royal Australian Air Forco machine which was wrecked while its crew were searching for the Kookaburra. Tho members of the board are

Captain Geoffrey Hughes, president of (he New South Wales Aero Club, Mr. C. McKay, president of tho Victorian Aero club, and Brigadier-General Lachlan Wilson, solicitor, of Brisbane.

The terms of reference for the inquiry arc comprehensive. They cover not only tlie actual forced landings but tho questions of provisions and general arrangements. Tho hoard will consider tho control of long distance flights in future. It will submit recommendations for regulations to govern iilternpls of the kind.