NOTES AND COMMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19675, 29 June 1927, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

BRITAIN'S LOCAL MIGRATION. More than 700.000 new houses have been erected in England and Wales since the end of the war down to the end of 1926, and it is estimated that by the end of 1928 the number of new houses will exceed 1.000.000. " How difficult it is to visualise the meaning of 1,000,000 new houses." said Mr. J. C. Meggitt, in his presidential address to the tional Union " Estimating 21ft. front age for each house, 1.000,000 houses, placed side by side, would extend 4000 miles, the distance between Liverpool and Chicago. Those who will reside in these new districts are for the. most part vonnger people. Older men and women do not move so readily. Therefore it follows that a larger proportion of children will be found in these new areas. It is not an unreasonable estimate to say that in round numbers 5.000.000 people will by the end of next year have removed to new houses in new districts. Can we grasp fully what is involved in the displacement of such an enormous population ?" p AIR LINERS OF THE FUTURE. Passenger aeroplanes flying at a thou sand miles an hour high above tin- earth s surface are forecasted by Mr. A. V. Roe, one of the pioneers of British aviation. Writing in Airways, he says that already aeroplanes can be built to fly at 300 miles an hour at sea level —it requires only half the power to drive them at 228 miles an hour—and if it were possible to reach an altitude of 12 miles, the same machine with-the lower power and a suitable propellot would attain the enormous speed of 1000 miles an hour, which is faster than the speed at which sound travels. A height ot seve • miles has been achieved and great ei altitudes would be possible with machines having specially-constructed cabins and an supply for pilot and passengers Mr Rue also points to the development of aero planes to carry many passengers The Junkers Compain s building a 'SO ton monoplane with accommodation foi 10U passengers and 12 clew. mOsl ol winch will be in the wings, the lattei being about Oft. Ingh 111 the thickest part, with a span of 240 ft I'lte machine will be driven by foi.ll engines of 1000 h.p each. For short (lights ovei watei of Irom 20 to 50 miles, flying boats may m time he developed to carry several hundreds of passengers. Possibly 100 passengers would be found a suitable number fo> long dis tance flights.