PERSONAL DOCUMENTS STOLEN
PACKED FOR TRANSPORT TO AUSTRALIA . (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 22 After being kept carefully sine" 1906, when Squadron Leader Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was lost during a flight from England to Australia, all of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s correspondence and other documents were stolen from a motor car in Wellington last week-end. The story of the theft was told this morning by Squadron Leader Beau Shiel, director of public relations for the R.N.Z.A.F., who was formerly personal assistant to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. The papers were left in his charge by Lady Kingsford Smith, and it was from his car that they were stolen. The correspondence had been put into a parcel by Squadron Leader Shiel for faking to Australia, where a film of Kingsford Smith’s life is now being made. Squadron Leader Shiel will leave for Sydney by air tomorrow.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25851, 23 May 1945, Page 6
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