AIR CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 226, 23 September 1936, Page 7

AIR CONFERENCE.

DELEGATES ARRIVE. IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS. TRANS-TASMAN MAILS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The delegates to the aviation conference arrived from Sydney by the Wanganella to-day. They included Mr. F. G. L. Bertram, representative of the British Air Ministry, and senior officers of the. Australian Commonwealth Post Office Department, the Commonwealth Civil Aviation Department, Captain E. C. Johnstone, Controller-General of Civil Aviation, Mr. M. L. Shepherd, Secretary of Defence, Mr. H. P. Brown, Director of Postal Services, and Mr. M. B. Harry, Chief Inspector of Postal Services. Sir Archdale Parkhill, Australian Minister of Defence, is also to visit the Dominion, leaving Sydney by the Awatea on Friday. Important discussions are expected to take place on aviation questions affecting New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, with particular reference to the trans-Tasman air mail service. I Mr. Bertram and the Australian representatives come at the New Zealand Government's invitation, Mr. Bertram having been chosen following a request to the Imperial Government to place an officer at the disposal of New Zealand to "ive advice on aviation developments. He" was the Imperial Government's representative at the conference in Australia nearly two years ago. At the present'time his special work in connection with the Empire air mail scheme. He has betin associated with the administration of aviation in England since 1919.