TO MAKE FLIGHT
IN BRITISH AIRSHIP
United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, Nov. 14
It is stated that a number of the' Members of Parliament who have won tickets for the flight in the' “R. 101” on Saturday have found a number of dressing engagements, preventing their participation in the flight. Several report tlia.t they have received letters from their constituents, imploring them not to risk the flight.
One, member of the House of Commons says that he has discovered, ;n a publication which features predictions, that a disaster to an airship in which politicians, were to be* enjoying a fliVht, was foretold for this very year, and month.
According, to , the present arrangemrintjs, .“ILlOl” will carry a party numbering about 180 persons including 75 members of the House of Commons, and twenty Peers, three of the ■atter being aged over seventy. The human cargo will weigh approximately thirteen tons.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 5
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151TO MAKE FLIGHT Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 5
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