In Crashed Plane
p. 104 · Read in the full issue
Search For Gold
Lost
SALVAGE expert Captain J. W.
Herd and Diver Neil Todkill returned to Brisbane on August 26, after a further effort to salvage the £35,000 in gold which was lost when the Drover plane, from Wau, unaccountably collapsed into the sea half a mile from the Lae airfield on July 16.
They found and salvaged the plane, and brought it into Lae for examination. They found Pilot J.
W. Spiers in the cockpit, and he was buried in Lae. But there was no sign of the other four of the seven persons lost, or of the gold— they had been scattered over the sea-bed when the plane partly broke up after striking the surface.
The bullion probably is lying in deep mud, anywhere within half a mile of where the wreck was found.
Captain Herd thought a further search was justified.
A company formed to breed cattle and Romney sheep in New Guinea has brought 10 pedigree Aberdeen- Angus heifers and two bulls, as well as 30 non-pedigree Aberdeen-Angus heifers from a champion breeder of Milong, NSW.