25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 297, 12 September 1938, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Army To Experiment With Motor-Vehicles From “The Dominion,” September 15, 1913. After the army manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain,, the War Office proposes to try whether it would lie possible to employ motor, instead of horse-drawn artillery. » » *

The German principality of Lippe Detmold Ims imposed a tax of five marks (about 4/6) on marriages, the proceeds to go to a "midwives" fund. * ♦ »

The young Auckland engineers, Sandford and Miller, who have devoted most of the past year to work on the perfection of a Hying machine, on Saturday al'tei>noon saw their efforts culminate in success, ii magnificent flight being made over a distance of three miles.

A wireless circuit has been established, it is believed, over a record distance—nearly ten thousand miles. The operators at Berth succeeded in communicating with the dreadnought Australia, which is now traversing tile Indian Ocean, and advantage was taken of this service to transmit a message from the Prime Minister of New Zealand to South Africa. A greeting was sent from the Earl of i.iverpool (Governor of New Zealand) to Lord Gladstone (Governor-General of South Africa), at Pretoria, through General Botha, Union Prime Minister,, at Capo Town. The course of the wireless message was from Wellington to Sydney, Sydney to Perth, Perth to the dreadnought. and the dreadnought to Durban.