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AVIATORS LOST IN DESERT. RECOVERY FROM THEIR ORDEAL. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Alice Springs, Sept. 10. Pilot M. Mather and Mr. L. Moloney, two of the three occupants of the transcontinental Monospar aeroplane which was wrecked when making a forced landing 40 miles from habitation bn a flight from Darwin to Adelaide, stated that while they were guarding the wrecked plane they killed a young crocodile consigned, by the plane to Adelaide, and ate portions of it. Messrs. Mather, Moloney and Renfrey (the last-named walked across the desert for help and was found by a search party) have now recovered from their ordeal.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1935, Page 16
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105ATE A CROCODILE Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1935, Page 16
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