AEROPLANE CRASH.
...—+— ' CONDITION 0! MR HUGHES. I ._ ... ' THANKFI'LNESS FIJII iifllAl‘EUnited Press Assn—Elma Teit CupyrlflJL BRISBANE, June lE. 'l‘he aeroplane which crashed yesliertlu)‘, 47 miles from Brisbune, causiing injuries to the Federal Minister of Health..\lr \V. .\I. Hughes. was piloted by Mr J. McLachian. who had Iheen flying blind for more than an hour. in landing, a wing oi the machine struck a fence. Mr Hughes was adnliticll to hospiiiui, but expressed himself us being lihunki’ul for his miraculous cscupe. ‘ The condition ut‘ Mr Hughes twday |is satisfactory. “it’ i had been a bet.jiing niani would rhuerrnlly have ‘Miven odds at 50 to i uninsi Lllll' geiiiing down surely," he ninset'mxi in an i interview. i Mr Hughes. win) is now 71 years nitl. insisted upon mxiing :1 ihreeHoursc meal and reading: n newspaper iiwiurc iiiiuwing the duciur to xiii-cud .10 his fractured cullarbone.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19911, 13 June 1936, Page 7
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143AEROPLANE CRASH. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19911, 13 June 1936, Page 7
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