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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 14

The Commonwealth Government, having offered a,prize of £5000 to the inventor of the first Australian-invented practical aeroplane, provided £5000 is raised by public sub.scnption,: Mr.- Dacey, M.L.A., wants" the State Government of New. South Wales to do likewise... Wr. Wade has not yet replied In the'.meantime,:. Mr. George A. Taylor (hon. secretary, Aerial' League of Australia) has issued an appeal/to patriotic Australians not to allow the offer.of tho Commonwealth Government uncovered. He thinks there should be many ready to respond to this appeal, whose, responso would, after' all simply be .ah insurance policy for tho nation .that.is making their wealth.. But though tho wealthy hang back, others have not been idle. /Twenty, years ago Mr. A. J. Watts' a dentist in-.Perth, ■ began to see visions and dream dreamß of tho conquest,of the air. He Bpent his earnings in the purchase of material for experimenting, : and now, after all these years of study and testing and expense, his castles -in the air have taken shape in the invention.of an aeroplane' which \b. said to'bc ahead of anything of the kind.yet projected. Mr. Watts's partner, Mr. Lindsay Campbell, is now in Melbourne with designs and photographs to submit to the Minister for Defence; • ' ,• v .