ALLEGED MESSAGE FROM MISSING MEN
NOT THOUGHT] GENUINE. ECHO OF HOOD-MONORIEFF, FLIGHT. WELLINGTON, Last Night. Half buried in silt on tlio bank ol the Pclorus Liver, Messrs J, S. and (). S. Haync, of ■Wellington, whirev on a tramping holiday, .found a hoi-j t](; containing tho message.: “Cant land ; oil, help—Scotty,”' evidently coining, or purporting to come, from Hood, and Moncrioff, who were lost on an attempt to 11. v the Tasman. On their return to Wellington they communicated with Messrs McLeod and Lesser, two personal friends ol Moncrieff, and Air AlcNleol, promoter of the flight. Asked if he thought the message was genuine, Air McLeod said, the signature was very similar to that contained hi a letter he had, received, from Scotty, hut personally he did not think it genuine.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 21 February 1929, Page 5
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