GREAT AIRSHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 7

GREAT AIRSHIPS.

SAFETT QUESTIONED. NEW YORK, January 18. The assurances of Washington Naval circles regarding the safety of dirigible eirships apparently have not dispelled the scepticism of the public There has been in the Senate an echo of the motion moved in the House of Representatives this week by Mr. George Washington T.-iylor, requesting the Navy Department to inform tlie House what scientific facts could be ascertained by the proposed Polar flight of ZRI, and whether the defects of the Dixmude had been coricctcd in ZRI. In the Senate. Mr. W. IT. King, of T.*tah, introduced a resolution urging investigation of the advisability of the construction of dirigibles. The resolution stated that owing to the danger of operation tlie Senate should consider withdrawing the appropriations for further construction. Mr. C. C. Dill, of Washington, said the accident to the Shenandoah showed the risk a Polar flight would entail. It would be a virt.'a." invitation to rlie o'F. cers of the Navy t& commit sui;ld?. The flight could not possibly be of assistance to the future defence of the country. Incidentally tlie resolution gained impetus through the report that the repairs io the Shenandoah would cost approximately £20,000. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXERS. DBMPSErS OPPONENTS. KEW YORK, January 18. Mr. Tex Rickard announces that Jack T)cmpsey, the world's heavy-weight champion boxer, will meet Tom Gibbons at New York in the first week of June. He hopes that Firpo, of Argentina, and Harry Wills, the coloured heavy-weight champion, will meet in the middle of July, the winner to meet Dampsey in the contest for the world's heavy-weight championship.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) DAIRY PRODUCE IN LONDON LOWER PRICE FOR BUTTER. LONDON, January 18. The butter market is a little easier, •following some weakness in Danish, but is .-steady at the lower level. New Zealand choicest* salted is quoted at 210/ to 212/, unsalted 212/ to 214/. Australian is quoted at 202/ to 204/, unsalted at 20G/. Danish is 222/. Cheese is steady, as stocks are light. New Zealand white is quoted at 103/ to .104/, coloured 101/ to 10G/.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) New Zealand choicPst butter was quoted a< 212/ to 214/ la?t week. Australian bring 206/. Xpw Zealand cliFCrf. and coloured, was rjnotcd at 104/.