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DECEMBER 28, 1916. agsaacsssgr-^a; (/ycHT] FROMTfoE FOUR WMtDS WHEN the time comes, it will be highly interesting to see the figures in connection with our National Aircraft Insurance Scheme. There should be a nice comfortable little credit balance to transfer to the other side of the War Balance Sheet, and thus save the much-taxed public a trifle. It seems a pretty profitable game, anyway, for municipalities and other large bodies to be their own insurers judging by the results of the L.C.C. in regard to its own buildings against fire and aircraft risks. The value represents £15,000,000. The premiums this year amounted to £26,600, and the loss to £743. So profitable is this municipal insurance scheme that the insurance fund stands at £163,870. Money saved and invested produces an income of £1,000 a year, more than enough to pay all losses, which have averaged for 10 years only £520 a year. What an object lesson and incentive to go and do likewise. CAPT. ROALD AMUNDSEN, of South Pole fame, looks to the aeroplane for carrying him upon the last stretch of his journey in search of the North Pole in 1918. Failing his hope that he will drift over the Pole, he has made up his mind to take his chance through the air. Capt. Amundsen ought to know what sort of bric-a-brac should form his impedimenta for the occasion and the sort of appendages and accessories which may help to spell success or failure, so it is as well that he is making himself responsible in this direction by personally supervising the construction of his proposed machine in America. Our only wonder is what he is going to do with the beastlyj thing—the Pole, not the machine—when he does harnessrit. Perhaps he'll have with him the other end of a wire and be able to try out a " Hello, are you there ? " direct to his previous love the South Pole, without waiting for a trunk call around the globe. One thing, when he gets back, he may find the war over. THE accession of the Rev. Haslam to the R.F.C. appears as if it may bring forth a new grade in the Air Services. In no less an oracle than the Guardian a plea for " sky-pilots " is put forward by the Rev. H. K. Bros, Chaplain 2nd Cavalry Brigade, writing from No. I N.Z. Hospital, France. Thusly he interprets the possibilities of such an innovation, and apparently has the backing of the common or garden strafing pilot to that end : " I believe I am right in saying that every branch of the Service has its Chaplain except the An Service Would it not be possible to have real ' sky pilots ' attached to the Flying Corps at various ' wing ' c>r squadion hr.ul quarters, who might hold services, when possible, anil look after the social side of the mechanics' life a lid' which 1 am told by those who should know is very laborious ? I have recently while in hospital met several officers in tin- Plying Corps, and they all seem to think that it would be good thing if Chaplains could l»- attached to the Aii Service. At the present time a branch of the Service whose members perhaps are in more constant danger than any othei branch appears to be somewhat left out in the matter of spiritual ministrations." ACCORDING to a correspondent in America, Laddie Laird, the exhibition pilot, flew over the City of St. Paul, Minn,, on election night and flashed the results of the election to the citizens below. Cute idea, that; we might go one better, and start an aerial news-plane—" The Kvening Star " and give Londoners " all the winners " on similar lines, and save paper. We shall have to consult somt ex|>cil as to how this can be worked on the " subscribers only " \> WHITENED kerbs, &c, are the antidote of Zepp.-raid black night, and so it is to lie hoped the response to the Commissioner of Police's reminder to the Metropolitan local authorities will be generous. The Westminster City Council, which is generally the leader in all up-to date municipal methods, has long since made their posts and refuges conspicuous by this method, and they now go a step further by providing white jackets for their night work men, so as to help guard them against the traffic. BERMONDSEY Borough Council is one ol tl» lad-.I bodies to support the action taken by Camberwcll in asking the Board of Trade to put forward sonic legislative measure making all liabilities for damage to persons and property in the British Isles caused by hostile aircraft or by bombard ment from enemy's ships or by vibration or damage from same, or from our own defensive armament, a charge upon the Imperial Exchequer. r ~ • ,' •'- '• - 'J \-»~ -^ "-**.,'*>- . • • "£*»•*%•'». =#^fSSI ' 73p***\*- • • * • '* < f" • -*r » --, "• --V h •••••• .*-•'" , ^ . -. vl, >j j *, * '\ '•<•;.. >x\* j, ~*^rx. -it%'?L^^m "•• : 'jft'-'-i^ '* >'*:>*"' -*,-* ;v :. «^ jM$~ '.- .^^t*-' .-"* :. \.-- * -C 1 • - -- ^fe , !*»*-*U M . ii^^^k^^.^ *'"fn^^* -' - ••' 0<:_ • Wi* \ • ' % '—- M^S \jj*&- - y ' ".IQ-^^-^, . .»..*•>'- -V"" 1 - . *» tfHEr »» 1 • 1 • *sms.' .... 1 B a HI IB IB HI M m • B B :•: !•: An awkward land ing somewhere on the Austro-Italian frontier. H a H a • 1 • .;•: ;•' • • B Hi a H "43
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