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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 478, 10 April 1909, Page 11

Major Baden-Powell, writing in "Tho ™nf' • S3ys: T lf definito ,a,vs »» adopted controlling such matters, we then get to the still more perplexing .problem of how to police these realms of blue. It is all vory well to dictate regulations for aerial traffic, but how is the law to be maintained? Machines travelling at a speed of thirty or forty yards LT£ f 8 !? SU t a l taTt th °y cannot easily be followed, and, unconfined to definite tracks, the transgressors cannot be detained on arrival at their destination. If all machines are to bear registered numbers or means of identification, there must be some international understanding about it, for in time we may have, for instance, thousands of bermans migrating over our heads to America.

The future of engineering in British East Africa must bo bright when ono recollects that it pays mincowncrs in German East Africa to Fend their machinery 200 miles overland to Lake Victoria, then by water to Port Florence, thence down the Uganda Railway to Nairobi for repairs.—"South African GomineicW •