WHALING BY AEROPLANE.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 23 June 1919, Page 4

WHALING BY AEROPLANE.

The shooting of a whale with a ma-chine-gun by an American aviator from his. aeroplane, off tlie Pacific Coast, near San Diego, California, opens tip a new field of possibility in the whaling industry (states an exchange). It suggests whaling ships of the future cruising forth with an equipement of aeroplanes and a complement of aviators and skilled gunners to scout for and bag these monsters of the deep, The first use of an aeroplane* by a New York business establishment for commercial purposes was made by the Jinn of Lord and Taylor, which sent a load of household goods by air from a substation in Garden City. Long Islam!, to Mount Vernon, New York State. The experiment was a success, in the opinion of the 'firm. The consignment consisted of flour, a lamp.

a carpet-sweeper, a tireless cooker, and linens. The , first aeroplane ambulance flew to New Turk recently, bringing Lieutenant David Gray, shot in both legs, from Rockaway to St. Luke’s Hospital, Major Helen Bastedo, of the Woman’s Motor Corps, accompanied the pilot—Lieutenant Stevens, of the Rockaway Naval Station—on the trip which was made in forty-nine minutes. Dispatches from Montreal state that aeroplanes will almost certainly bo added to the equipment of the NorthWest Mounted Police, for its far northern patrols. Naval non-rigid dirigible airships wil! be utilised by the United Stares Army in patrolling the Mexican lmrdcT. Arrangements have been made under which the navy will turn over several dirigibles for this work. A military border patrol has been maintained since the original Madero insurrection against the late President Diaz.