FOR KING OF IRAQ.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 7

FOR KING OF IRAQ.

LAVISH BRITISH AEROPLANE,

British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, March 16. The de Havilland Aircraft Company early next month will deliver a new Dragon Ely biplane fitted with two Gipsy-Major motors of 130 horse-power, to King Ghazi of Iraq. The cruising speed of the new machine is 125 miles an hour. The cabin has been specially treated to exclude the npise of the engine and is luxuriously finished. As a provision against emergencies in the desert a two-gallon water tank has been fitted under the rear seat in the cabin. CENTENARY AIR RACE. FROM SYDNEY TO ADELAIDE. (Received 10 a.m.) ADELAIDE, this day. The State Centenary Committee has decided to award a prize of £1000 for an air race from Sydney to Adelaide via Melbourne, finishing on December 18, to be followed by an aerial pageant. " SMITHY'S " DEATH. PRESUMPTION BY WIDOW. SYDNEY, March 16. Mr. Justice Nicholas, in the Probate Court to-day, granted leave to Lady Kingsford Smith to swear to the death of her husband, Sir Charles. Affidavits by Mr. G. U. Allen and others described the .fruitless search for Sir Charles in the region of the Malay Peninsula and the Bay of Bengal at the end of last year. I FOR KING'S USE. AERODROME AT WINDSOR. LONDON, March 16. Tlio "Daily Telegraph" says it understands the King is having a private aerodrome built in Windsor Great Park. This disposes of the suggestion that His Majesty is giving up travelling.by aero-i plane.