MISTAKEN SIGNAL
SOUTHERN CROSS MISHAP THE KOOKABURRA RESCUE . ■■ ' SYDNEY, May-10;' Interviewed concerning the Drysdale mission signal incident, Kingsford Smith said: "We attached ...the message to a pocket torch and flew 50ft. over the mission station. We thought we saw it picked up by two people resembling aborigines, one of whom pointed south-west and the other threw, white objects like pieces of wood, in the same direction. It is just" pos?.. sible we were mistaken and that they were instead pointing' to the ground, inviting us to land.?! ._._;'■ .;...;-.„'.' ':.' The Hon. J. Abbott, Minister" of Territories, announced that a Thorney---croft truck of the rigid six-wheeled'. variety is leaving Oodnadatta to make an 80-mile dash* to tbV : 6cene-' of the Kookaburra disaster in jfiKlet-7 to bring back the bodies of Anderson and Hitchcock. The track will havo—■ a terrible task traversing the'scrub', for which it is specially suited. '_ It"," will;take 600 gallons of' water, 'Bad" will be directed by Air Force, aero- _ planes. The truck is performing- * the—task free of all cost. ; .V.'. ■ ■'■-'•• ■ ■..•■•">-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16948, 11 May 1929, Page 5
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