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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 191, 2 May 1918, Page 6

The prediction that most of us will live to sec ii great boom in aviation j from a commercial poin l ' of view will j mil be regarded us it very hazardous one. j It is stated that there is not a great ; deal of v;ork in an aeroplane when it'; is produced in quantities. The engine is the most important, and at the same i time the most expensive, item. But if | we are ever to have living-machines for ; the public, this miration of tho engine ! will have to lie tackled verv seriously, i and something cheap to manufacture and j economical to" run will have to be evolv- . ed. The question of upkeep is an iiu- | portant one, but (he fear of danger in . a few years' time will hardly enter into j the matter at all. When first the railway engine, steamship, bicycle, or motor- | car was produced, everyone said what a i w.ieked ami dangerous machine it was. '■ And doubtless tlie fame was and will lie : said about the aeroplane. But gradually ; people's opinions will be changed and | influenced by the extending growth and ; progress of aviation, until by the time ! that the next generation are in their j prime living w <" l>e quite °- n ordinary j means of j>ettin<r about 'he country, and not onlv that,' but of t-uvelling from one country to another. | "While work was being carj'ied out at j ancient church of St. Augustine at Eimini the discovery was made of .15)1110 extremely important frescoes of the four- I trenth century, of the sclu-ol of ("iiotto. ' One of these contains a new and very k'iiuti:ii! •M-irnh of Dante. A Swedish concern, seeking' lo over- j TOino the shorl'iTO of rnw for : soap making, has undertaken (lie manufacture of ?oap from sower fat, by a new method, and proposes also to use Mative vegetable fats fmm beech-mast, horse-chestnuts, and the like, 'rebuilding roads in O'M Britain will cost .CM.Ofifl.nri'l. ir ---.|: — i ;: estimates I recently issued. This sum will be re- I quired to reconstruct or -ieM-ih-i ''•'• j 1. r i,oo(| miles of roads in order to enable, them to carry the inn-easing motor ! traffic. The wo-k ■■.•ill be largely 1";! | until after the war. . The population of .lapan shows an increase of between 700,000 and 800,000 every year.