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UFOs in the daily Press:

The "mysterious airship" wave in the New Zealand Press, 1909:

The article below was published in the daily newspaper Feilding Star, New Zealand, Volume III, Issue 882, page 3, on May 19, 1909.

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CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP COMPANY.

AN AUCKLAND AIRSHIP.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH -- COPYRIGHT)

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION)

Berlin, May 18.

The Zeppelin Airship Company estimates that an aggregate of 600 trips per annum, with three ships (inclusive of wages and amortisation charges) would cost £8500 sterling. The only doubt is whether there would be sufficient passengers available to cover expenses. Each ship would have a crew of five and would be capable of carrying twenty passengers. A War Office subsidy is expected for the principal line, which will be from Dusseldorf to Lucerne.

Auckland, May 18.

A locally invented airship is to be exhibited at the Auckland A. and P. Association's exhibition next week, provided a trial, which is to be made next Friday, is attended with satisfactory results. The inventor is a Mr Barnard, and it is stated that a trial made some time, ago was sufficiently gratifying to warrant patent being taken out.

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