SEARCH FOR HELIUM
GAS FOR AIRSHIPS
EXPERTS AT MOK G li&
Professor Farr, of lege, and Air Rogers, two expert; rt “. rained by the Government, are pkutg irA estimations thr mghoUr Goj-.-mion for traces, of helium, i> ;, ‘ lightest gas known to science 11 1 1 the exception of hydrogen and wF* 1 is invaluable to aviation owing t !!: being non-inflammable.' All nl fes throughout New Zealand where t- fre ; are natural discharges of gas .anting visited by, tlicso experts, who* 1 ' 0 , at- present engaged in the 'i Alt ( 'T e district, Air Rogers having, alr* d - v taken samples of gas in the -Wa'P 11 district. As there is only one I r ! ct ; in the world where helium is obi'/r able, and there is so little-left discovery. of the gas would, of coPffi prove of immense importance all rer the world. Helium is a chemical element-of"® argon family and is chemically f ”" duced from natural gases ,at Worth, Texas, and elsewhere alof? belt extending from Texas -to Pf?, slyvania and New York. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10473, 31 December 1927, Page 8
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174SEARCH FOR HELIUM Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10473, 31 December 1927, Page 8
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