MAWSON'S EXPEDITION.
PROPOSED MONOPLANE FLIGHT
United Press Association —x>y Electric Telegraph —Copyright. (Received May 11, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 10. Sir Ernest Shackleton has been promised, in response to his appeal, valuable supplies for Dr. Mawson's equipment. A West Australian contributes £IOOO and Madame Melba £IOO, making the Mawson fund £9OOO to date. Lieutenant Hugh Watkins, Essex Regiment, will be the pilot of- Dr. Mawson's monoplane, which will be manufactured by Vickers. It will have a screen to protect the pilot and passengers from the cold. Thei monoplane will be employed in mapping and surveying, and will-take at the southernmost depoti sufficient petrol for a single flight to fciie Polled and a return to the depot—namely, two hundred and fifty miles.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10236, 12 May 1911, Page 6
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121MAWSON'S EXPEDITION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10236, 12 May 1911, Page 6
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