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AIRMEN HONOURED,
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
WELLINGTON, Nov. 2. A notice gazetted yesterday appoints the four aerial conquerors of the Tasman to the Now Zealand Air Force, Squadron Leader Kings ford Smith being given the rank of Major, FlightLient. film that of captain, and Messrs Litchfield and McWilliams that of lieutenant. The appointments date from October 10th. the appointees being simultaneously transferred to the Reserve of Officers.
USE OE AEROPLANES
(Received this day at 11 a.m.) LONDON, October 31
It is understood the railway companies are discussing an application to Parliament for air transport powers to carry passengers ami goods. It is pointed out that market gardeners a distance 'from Jjondon are urging the use of aeroplanes to enable- them more adequately to meet competition from the foreign produccv.
NEW SEAPLANE C A Til? I ETC. SYDNEY, Nov. 2. Tlio seaplane carrier Albatross, of six thousand tons, launched recently at Cockatoo Dock and the first naval vessel built in Australia, since the war, undergoes trials next week. Aeroplanes will bo catapulted or lowered to the water surface for'a takooff, as circumstances require. The ship being of different character from anything hitherto built in the Commonwealth, fhany details ot construction had to lm worked out by the dockyard staff, without the guidance of patterns *
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1928, Page 5
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