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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XII, Issue 1, 1 January 1919, Page 21

A warm tribute to the girls engaged in the construction of airships was paid by Mr. Horatio Bottomley in Trafalgar Square, London, when, at the request of Lady Sybil Grant, he addressed a large crowd which had assembled at the Camouflage Fair. These girls, said Mr. Bottomley, were a branch of the Navy, they were silent workers, engaged in making , the wonderful machines which were the sentinels of the sky, and located miries and destroyed submarines. In producing these

machines they had rendered the nation an inestimable service. In the early days of the war Germany had an enormous advantage o ver us in that respect. Her fleet was well equipped with airships, whilst ours had none, but to-day we had a magnificent service, due to the work of those girls, and he believed it was a fact which could not be disputed that no convoy which had been accompanied by these airships had ever come to grief. — From the " Evening Post.'