AWARD FOR SERVICE
The first annual award by the Canadian Government of the McKee Trophy for “meritorious service in aviation” has been made to Captain M. A. Oaks of the Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration, Ltd., and formerly connected with Western Canada Airways. Captain Oaks organised the transportation of the machinery and crew for mining at Fort Churchill in win-ter-time, being in the air himself a large proportion of the possible flying hours, and carrying 90 passengers and 13 tons of freight. The McKee Trophy was donated by the late Mr. J. D. McKee, the Pittsburgh aviation enthusiast, who, with Squadron-Leader Godfrey, made the I first trans-Canada flight in 1926. When j preparing for a flight from Montreal i to the Arctic Ocean Mr. McKee was | killed in a. crash in the Laurentian j Mountains.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 623, 27 March 1929, Page 14
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134AWARD FOR SERVICE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 623, 27 March 1929, Page 14
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