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that it would be divided betweenJMr. Hawker and Commander Grieve in the proportions that they had decided to divide the £10,000, it they succeeded in winning it. When Mr. Hawker received the £5,000, he said, " We have not won the prize. We have both gone through equal risk together. We will halve it." The original plan was to share the £10,000 in proportions of 70 per cent, and 30 per cent. Mr. Hawker had assured him that Commander Grieve was the most wonderful navigator he had ever met, and if he took up the job again he would not dream of going with anybody- else. With regard to the American Transatlantic flight, an erroneous impression had got abroad that we did not think very much of it. He could assure them that that was not so. He 'extended to Commander Read their heartiest congratula tions, and he also expressed his admiration of the wonderful organisation arranged by the American navy. There was an idea that the Government ought to have supplied patrol ships.' But the North Atlantic route was different from that to the Azores. The weather was different, and absolutely unreliable at this time of the year. If ships had been sent out they would have been waiting for two months, and the Government could not expect the country to supply the necessary money to keep a large proportion of the British Fleet at sea for that purpose. They had received the greatest courtesy and assistance from all the Government Depart ments with which they had come in contact. The Air Ministry had assisted them, and the help of the Marconi Co. had been invaluable. He was certain that before this summer was out a British crew in a machine of British design and construction, and backed by British enterprise, would be the first to make the non-stop direct flight. When he met Hawker and Grieve, almost their first words were, " Let us have another go at it." So far as his company was con cerned, they would not make another attempt, but they extended good wishes to the other competitors. The toast list concluded with " The Chairman," proposed by Maj.-Gen. Sir S. Brancker. THE DAILY MAIL "CONSOLATION PRIZE" PRESENTATION MR. HAWKER and Commander Grieve were entertained foundland is every whit equal to that of the small Mother" at luncheon on May 28 by the directors of the Daily Mail, land from which they sprang. The partnership of Hawker and were presented by Maj.-Gen. Seely, Under-Secretary the Australian flyer, and Grieve, of the British Navy, has to the Air Ministry, with the cheque for £5,000 awarded to proved what can be achieved by unity of members of our rf^iiu^ them by the directors of the Daily Mail as a consolation prize. Mrs. Hawker accompanied her husband, and was the only lady present. Lord North- cliffe was unable to preside owing to an impending operation on his throat, and the chair was taken by Mr. Thomas Marlowe, Chairman of the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., and editor of the Daily Mail. Among those who accepted invitations were the following : The Lord Chancellor (Lord Birkenhead), Lord Inverclyde, Lord Morris, Lord Londonderry, Maj.-Gen. J. E. B. Seely, Maj.-Gen. Sir F. Sykes, Admiral-of-the-Fleet Sir Edward Seymour, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs), Sir W. A. Robinson, Sir Edgar Bowring, Mr. Andrew Fisher, Sir Joseph Cook, Mr. John Walter, Sheriff Banister Fletcher, Sir Arthur Stanley, Sir George Sutton, Sir Campbell Stuart, Sir Marcus Samuel, Sir William Sutherland, Sir Howard Frank, Brig.-Gen. Sir Capel Holden, Sir Trevor Dawson, Sir Henry Dalziel, Sir Vincent Caillard, Sir S. J. Waring, Sir Charles Wakefield, Maj.-Gen. Sir W. S. Brancker, Gen. G. M. Ruck, Brig.-Gen. W. F. Mildren, Brig.- Gen. Livingstone, Commander H. E. Perrin, R.N.V.R., Col. Clarke, Col. F. K. Maclean, Lieut.-Col. Ivor Fraser, Maj. Evelyn Wrench, Maj. Timewell, Mr. Hildebrand Harmsworth, Mr. Vyvyan Harmsworth. Mr. Reginald Nicholson, Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith, Mr. Handley Page, Mr. Claude John son, Col. Hubbard. Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, Mr. W. Lints Smith, Mr. G. B. Cockburn, Mr. A. V. Roe, Mr. A. H. Fenn, Mr. Holt Thomas, Mr. J. Cowley, Mr. C. R. Fairie, Mr. B. Stevenson, Mr. Cary, Mr. W. A. Bland, Mr. Grahame- White, Maj. Buck, Maj. Bullock, Capt. C. Gamage, Mr. Eric Gamage, Mr. Stuart Hirst, Mr. Robert Burns, Maj. Heckstall Smith, Mr. Harry Smith.. Mr. Guy Petter, Mr. H. Imber, Mr. A. Levy, Mr. P. Richardson, Mr. Sidney Pickles, Mr. George White, Mr. F. E. Bussy. and Mr. Chester. The Chairman read messages regretting inability to attend from the Duke of Con- naught, the Duke of Atholl, the Lord Mayor, Mr. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia), Sir Rosslyn Wemyss (First Sea Lord), and Lord Weir. Lord Northcliffe sent the following message :— " I regret that my physicians forbid my taking part in any public functions just now. Had I been present to-day I should have liked to elaborate a few outstanding facts con nected with this occasion. " The War has shown us that the courage of the sister nations of Austra lasia, Canada, South Africa, and New- British Commonwealth. Their flight is as great a step FIRST LANTIC '*t**fAts THE DAIU ^fiaooo \)4 ^ Ju?2C&OI7 jfo ; Mr.H.G. HAWKER, v= anct i ••"•>.: v, Com>fACKENZIE-GRIEVE J%aV 28,1919 ff tU^MJ&vJJuUlUU-&- Mr. Hawker and Commander Mackenzie-Grieve at the Savoy Hotel receive the Daily Mail £5,000 Consolation Prize. The front of the menu card autographed by Mr. and Mrs. Hawker, Commander Mackenzie-Grieve, Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith (the machine), Mr. Claude Johnson (the Rolls-Royce engine), Commander H. E. Perrin, Secretary, Royal Aero Club, and Mr. Thomas Marlowe, of the Daily Mail who presided in the absence, through illness, of Lord Northcliffe. 736
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