The gas-bag airship "Mayfly*" avhich went to pieces on its first outing recently, has cost tho taxpayer £570,600, and its end probably means the end of the airship as against* the aeroplane, There >vjjl be a 'bjg bill to pay by the British taxpaypp fpr the ramming of the "Olympic by a battleship, m addition to the cost of the "Hawke," which, seems to h&ve been completely smashed m on the bowi,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12632, 8 December 1911, Page 3
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