NEW ZEALAND'S AIRSHIP.
THE-BRITANNIA FORMALLY PRESENTED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 6, 11.45 p.m. London, June 6. At the Imperial Air Fleet Committee's dinner, Lord Desborough presented the Hon. T. Mackenzie' with the aeroplane Britannia, eulogising New Zealand's enterprise in accepting the committee's gift. He hoped that it would be the forerunner of similar • presentations to other oversea colonies, inaugurating an Empire air fleet.
Mr. Mackenzie thanked the committee for the gift. Sir Joseph Ward proposed the toast of "Commerce." ' He urged that Britain, Canada and New Zealand should arrange a twenty-one days' steam service between Britain and New Zealand.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19130607.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 6, 7 June 1913, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
99NEW ZEALAND'S AIRSHIP. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 6, 7 June 1913, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in