AEROPLANE MODELS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18707, 13 May 1924, Page 9

AEROPLANE MODELS

HOW GERMANY GOT THEM. '■ '• . ' LONDON. May S. V / " The Premier of New South Wales. Sir :. . \ j George Fuller, has- cabled , the j AgentGeneral, Sir T. Coghlan, that it is untrue , o that the ;■ New South Wales Government' v ' refused the aeroplane models belonging to ' the late Mr. Hargreaves, the aeroplane * mventor, as stated by his daughter is- • 5 centlv in London. ' ; ' 3 The Premier says that in 1909 the then •> ! Premier, Mr. Wade, agreed to accept the .* r . } models and to house them in the Tech-1| •' ! nological Museum, but that' instead thoy " , ' were handed to a German museum. . ' > Sir, Joseph Cook, the - High .Commls*: •' ; sioner, stated that in 1909 he'had been ' ' offered • the models - and agreed to accept.7 •«.< them for the Federal Government. \"_! j• Mr. George A. Taylor, of the Sydney ■; Town-planning ' Association, says that ho did not, as Sir George Fuller asserts, | hand the models over to Germany. ''When I|S the New South Wales Government, 'in 1909, refused the models,*' he said,' "I , called on' the Premier, Mr. Wade, who ; told rae that the Government refused 11^\^ accept them. I then journeyed to Mel> bourne to the Federal Parliament House, . and Sir Joseph Cook agreed to take them until Canberra was ready. I hurried back to Sydney to Mr.< Hargreaves, who '* was unaware of my visit to Melbourne, bint meanwhile ,ho had been visited by German professors to whom he gava the models, and that is why they ara Munich." 1 .