RADIUM INSTITUTE APPEAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9743, 7 March 1914, Page 5

RADIUM INSTITUTE APPEAL.

The following donations have been promised in aid of the fm<£ beir.tr raised f„r the purpose of establishing a North Island Radium Institute \ i £ f. d Amount previously i'ckrowh-Jufd 2027 ]o r > I.P.R. (sth donatio':) 0 2 (j MARTIN RADIUM FUND. Ihe followi iijt amounts Live been ,ui,. scribed to the above fund H. J. A. Barber ] ( c,

A ieature < i export aviation Hi at seemed to impress each <ii tiie tire passengers who took flilclll is with .Mr !i. (•: iiawkor at Randwick bust w.vk, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, was the apparent ease with which the pilot picked up his bearing and re- | turned to land at the, .same .spot from i which ho .started. "1 could pi<• k up places I knew, such a.s Centennial Park, | Ascot Racecourse. :md Hotany liav.'' [said one passenger. but tile view ol near landmarks was more restricted, and in>t las I thought I recognised a place wwere past it. What came within one'.I range looked ju.st like a little detailed I map—and one wanted the names on the | map to toll which part wa.s which." It I would soom that the greatest, drawback to the aeroplane a.s a pleasure crati is the terrific noise of the powertul engine. Conversation, i.i practicallx impossible when the engine is goiiej., [though when it i.s turned oil ior a descent the occupants get a respite irem the din. The tact tiiat the noise of i the exhaust iV clearly audible when the machine is a thousand feet or nun > I overhead will give hi me idea ol how it. ' must sound to tiie occupant*? <-i th" machine.

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