PLANE MISSING

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23315, 26 September 1945, Page 4

PLANE MISSING

Dakota Transport Unsuccessful Search (N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON. Sept. 25. An extensive search by 16 planes was carried out yesterday from New Zealand, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia and Espiritu Santos, | for the Douglas-Dakota aircraft of the R.N.Z.A.F. Transport Command which failed to arrive at Whenuapai yesterday afternoon from Espiritu Santos. The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) said to-day that the aircraft was last reported at approximately 10 a.m. yesterday when a routine signal was received for position. From that time no word had been received from the aircraft. The crew and passengers were:— Crew Flying Officer Jack Arthur Hoffeins, captain of the aircraft. Father, Mr C. J. Hoffeins. Wellington. Flying Officer Kenneth MacArthur, navigator. Father. Mr A. F. MacArthur, Auckland. Pilot Officer Clifton Charles Kennedy, wireless operator. Father, Mr C. Kennedy. Blenheim. Corporal John Douglas Jacobs, acting flight engineer. Wife, Mrs N. T. Jacobs, Christchurch. Passengers Flight Lieutenant Wilfrid Francis Coulson. Wife, Mrs J. E. Coulson. Riccarton. Flying Officer Douglas Farr. Wife, Mrs M. N. Farr, Dunedin. -Flying Officer Alan Allister Macpherson, Christchurch. Mother, Mrs E. M. Macpherson, Christchurch. ' L.A.C. Oswald Ferguson Bath. Wife, Mrs M. G. Bath, Invercargill. L.A.C. Harry Fane. Mother, Mrs E. Fane, Auckland. L.A.C. George Firman. Mother. Mrs L. Firman, Otago. Corporal Edmund Eaton Gosling. Wife. Mrs M. Gosling, Christchurch . L.A.C. John Barnard Grenfell. Sister, Mrs D. A. Gliddon. Nelson. Corporal Frank Graham Haldane. Wife. Mrs I. M. Haldane, Dunedin. L.A.C. Frederick John Kearney. Father, Mr J. Kearney, Invercargill. L.A.C. David John Reid. Wife, Mrs C. V. Reid, Masterton. Flight Sergeant Reginald Bernard Russell. Wife, Mrs M. Russell, Christchurch. L.A.C. Ralph Gordon Savage. Mother. Mrs E. E. Savage, Riccarton. L.A.C. Raymond Jonathan Taylor. Mother. Mrs I. M. Taylor, Mosgiel. L.A.C. Douglas Stanley Thomas. Mother, Mrs C. G. Thomas. Dunedin. Corporal Marshall Harry Wilson. Father Mr A. Wilson, Taumarunul.