AVIATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 15, 8 May 1914, Page 5

AVIATION.

EXPLORING AEROPLANES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [D.hted Prehu ajboociation.l Paris, May 7. Five military aeroplanes, each carrying an officer, a mechanic, arms and ammunition, and provisions, have left Tunis on a 2500 miles circular tour, which is expected to last a fortnight. A committee lias been formed in London with the object of testing a new British-built airship and afterwards purchasing it and presenting it to the British Government as an unconditional gift. It is desired (states the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times) that the overseas dominions shall participate in the movement. In a letter which he has written to the New Zealand Government Office, Captain Hawtrey Cox, the secretary of the committee, says: “I should be glad if you would forward this request to ypur Government to subscribe to the fund, in which event we should bo pleased to arrange privately with the owners of the* patents, after the Britannia has successfully passed the tests, for the building of an airship for Now Zealand at cost price, thereby assuring that, in addition to the credit of having subscribed, to the Britannia movement, they shall acquire an airship at a price which, when added to Bio amount of the subscription, is less than the ordinary price of the airship.”