Hey my link is real and not spam, I can assure you. I do not know anything about “wrestlermural” though and why he’s posted that comment, with the same link as I posted.

I did put the year into the title…

“As Dave has said above,  this is old-school and has been fun!”

Let’s keep this going. I regularly peruse the old newspapers so anything else like this of great interest, I can also post on this forum. It’s great to have the old gang back together. 

Thanks chaps.

Yes, most overseas news that appeared in the New Zealand newspapers back then were copied from other newspapers through syndication and that is probably why it took two months to make it into the Auckland Star as it would have come by ship I expect. Really important news would come by wire and be published the day of or after receiving it. And also some of the bigger papers had their own correspondents in places like Britain who sent home stories. This article will have been syndicated though. 

Good to hear that it seems the girls survived. I wonder where the crash site was, I looked at Google Maps but could not pinpoint anything.