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AGRICULTURE IN AUSTRALIA

Australia is in marked contrast to India as regards her agricultural problems and practices. One of Australia's great farming disadvantages is drought and insufficient rainfall. There has not been a satisfactory general rain for five years. Wing Commander L. J. Wackett who flew across the Continent recently, lecturing before the Sydney branch of the Royal Empire Society said: We hear much from time to time about the great open spaces of Australia. Having seen them from the air I regret to say they left an impression of despair. Such country can never support modern civilisation and most of it is useless waste."

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Wing Commander William George Sitwell

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The Practical Aspect of Seaplanes

A meeting of the Society was held in the rooms of the Royal Society of Arts, Adelphi, London, on Thursday, February 15th, 1923, Professor L. Bairstow presiding. The Chairman, referring to the paper to be read, namely, on “ The Practical Aspect of Seaplanes,” by Wing Commander T. R. Cave-Browne-Cave, C.B.E., said that this was the third of the series of lectures on seaplanes, a series which came into being mainly at the instigation of Wing Commander Cave-Browne-Cave. The lecturer was a member of the Council of the Society, and had thought that it woqld be advisable to have a connected series of papers of this description ; it could be said that the policy adopted had been successful and would be rounded off by that evening’s lecture. The author, in the beginning of the paper, explained what his position was, and that the paper represented other views in addition to his own, so that he (the Chairman) did not propose to enter into that subject, but he asked those present to note, when the paper was read, how the whole cause of seaplane development cried out loudly for further experiment. The conclusions in the paper were more definite than those they usually associated with pilots’ opinions on the flying of aircraft, but that they were generally sound he himself had some reason to know. On the other hand, it was quite clear from the paper that the author had not been able to put into numerical form many things which he knew were true in a general way. He then called upon the author to read his paper.