Photo by "The Aeroplane." Imperial Airways' neiv Ensign airliner, the first of a fleet of fourteen to be built for the European and Empire air routes. The Ensign is the biggest land-plane in the world. There is room aboard for forty passengers, or, when she carries the Empire air mail, twentyseven passengers and up to 1% tons of freight and mail. The Ensign requires a crew of five, is 114 ft long, with 127 ft wing span, and weighs twenty-one tons. In the air, as seen in the picture, the under-carriage is drawn up into the wings, but when landing the 6ft wheels are very impressive. She is built of duralumin and coated with shining aluminium. The four engines, at tlie normal cruising speed of 200 m.p.h., run at 2150 revolutions per minute. Crown Studios Photo. Mr. W. E. Pawsonj who died suddenly on Thursday at Petone. He was a well-known figure in bowling and other sporting circles, and prior to his retirement about seven years ago was chief clerk in the railway stationery stores at Wellington. "Ereninff Post" Photo. Winners of the recruiting poster contest receiving their prizes from the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones (right). The recipients, from the left, are Messrs, E. O. Chapman and R. Clark, equal first in Section 2, and Second-Lieut. E. McAra, winner of Section 1. "Wide World" Photo. The Chinese are reported ■>. to have destroyed many of their factories before they vacated Hankow to prevent machinery and stock falling into the hands of the Japanese. This was a very large block of buildings before it was destroyed v and many Chinese- 'workers were employed in it. (Evening Post, 03 December 1938)

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Photo by "The Aeroplane." Imperial Airways' neiv Ensign airliner, the first of a fleet of fourteen to be built for the European and Empire air routes. The Ensign is the biggest land-plane in the world. There is room aboard for forty passengers, or, when she carries the Empire air mail, twentyseven passengers and up to 1% tons of freight and mail. The Ensign requires a crew of five, is 114 ft long, with 127 ft wing span, and weighs twenty-one tons. In the air, as seen in the picture, the under-carriage is drawn up into the wings, but when landing the 6ft wheels are very impressive. She is built of duralumin and coated with shining aluminium. The four engines, at tlie normal cruising speed of 200 m.p.h., run at 2150 revolutions per minute. Crown Studios Photo. Mr. W. E. Pawsonj who died suddenly on Thursday at Petone. He was a well-known figure in bowling and other sporting circles, and prior to his retirement about seven years ago was chief clerk in the railway stationery stores at Wellington. "Ereninff Post" Photo. Winners of the recruiting poster contest receiving their prizes from the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones (right). The recipients, from the left, are Messrs, E. O. Chapman and R. Clark, equal first in Section 2, and Second-Lieut. E. McAra, winner of Section 1. "Wide World" Photo. The Chinese are reported ■>. to have destroyed many of their factories before they vacated Hankow to prevent machinery and stock falling into the hands of the Japanese. This was a very large block of buildings before it was destroyed v and many Chinese- 'workers were employed in it. (Evening Post, 03 December 1938)

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