SPIRITUALISTIC RUBBISH.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, 17 July 1930, Page 11

SPIRITUALISTIC RUBBISH.

HOOD-MONCRIEFF FLIGHT. By Telegraph—Press* Association BLENHEIM, July 15. Inquiries among the settlers south of Ward indicates that nothing has ever been seen to substantiate the story of the Marrickville spiritualist. The locality four miles south of Ward corresponds with the property of either Mr W. S. Andrews or Mr A. R. Wooding. Mr Andrews says his place is fairly open, with numerous gullies, some of which are very steep, but not obscured by bush. He has mustered all over the property repeatedly, and is of opinion that if the plane had been wrecked there, he would have found some traces. Mr Wooding, however, is not so certain. His country includes numerous scrub obscured gullies, into some of which he has never penetrated, and he says that there would be plenty of places where a dozen planes might have crashed without his knowledge. “I’ll go and have a look when I get time,” he concluded.

FURTHER DETAILS OF “DREAM.” By Telegraph—Press AsswiAtion WELLINGTON, July 16. Private cable advice gives exact information regarding the alleged location of the Hood-Moncrieff 'plane. It states that the crash occurred in a gully 200 yards from the coast and half a mile south from Cape Graham, four to six miles south of Ward, and gives the lat. at 42.5 deg. south, and longitude 174.3 east. A point four to six miles from Ward is a long way from this, and no such place as Cape Graham is on the map or known to navigators. Both locations are on or very close to the main road, and four miles south of Ward is the township of Mfrza, on the railway. The latitude and longitude given are very near, if not at the township of Kekerangu, and the neighbourhood is a long settled fanning country, and the scene of present activity of the Public Works Department in building the main railway connection to Parnassus in Canterbury. The area is reported to have been thoroughly searched at the time of the fatal flight, although the possibility of the aviators having reached the coast of the South Island was very remote. It is recalled that the weau* in the vicinity of Wellington at the time of the flight was cloudless. NOTHING IN IT. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, July 16. “There is nothing in that story,” said Flight-Lieut. M. W. Buckley, of the Wigram Aerodrome, who conducted the aerial search along the coast (and over the spot mentioned on the morning following the day of the flight. The place is right on the air route between here and Blenheim, and is flown over every day or so More than ' 200 planes must have pp.ssed over there since the Tasman flight was attempted, and it is practically impossible that a wrecked ’plane could have been missed.”