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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20690, 12 April 1929, Page 9

party. The whole position is rendered more serious by reason of the fact that at the latter end of the wet season the country is more or less waterlogged. The land between theDrysdale River and the mission station comprises wild sandstone, where landing without accident or possible death would be an impossibility. And the same fear would extend to the south, east, and west of the station. In November, 1911, as we slowly made our way down from the table land 'area to the comparatively level country near the Napier Broome Bay, and eventually arrived at the mission station, our horses were almost even day bogged in the treacherous ground as we tra- , versed the river and creek flats in the vicinity; this will give an indication that after months of heavy vain it would have been extremely fortunate if Kings-ford-Smith landed without accident. And assuming that he did so, it is, I think, entirely problematical whether the plane could be got up until the dry season, which extends from April to the following September, lias definitely set in, or at any rate until a vast amount of clearing work in the timbered lands near the mission station • has been i effected.”