CIVIL AVIATION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 247, 1 August 1935, Page 5

CIVIL AVIATION

EXTENDING BRITISH AIR LINES.

FORMATION OF A COUNCIL.

CO-ORDINATING DEVELOPMENT

United Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. An ambitious programme for extending British air lines to Europe, also for. establishing services across the southern, northern and central Atlantic are foreshadowed by the formation of an Air Ministry Council, under the chairmanship of Sir Warren I ishei (Permanent Secretary of the Treasury) and including Lieutenant-Colonel I. C. Shelmerdine (Director of Civil Aviation) and representatives of • the Dominions, Colonial, India and Foreign Offices, Board of Trade, Post Office, Admiralty and Treasury. The Council’s task will be the more vigorous and!' more co-ordinated development of all external air routes.

TASMAN LINK IN SERVICE.

EIGHT DAY TRIP FORECAST,

(Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.)

LONDON, July 31

British aviation circles fear that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s proposal for a Tasman air service will prejudice the development of the Empire scheme. The representative of the “SunHerald” understands that Australia and New Zealand contemplate calling tenders for a Tasman service open to any responsible group representing British enterprise, but it is considered here that efficiency in the speeding up of the England-Australia-New Zealand air link was dependent on British control over all sections.

Probably one flying boat, stopping only to change crews and refuel, will link Croydon land New Zealand in eight days by the end of 1937. The plan might be hampered if a rival service were operating across the Tasman.

INTERNAL TRANSPORT NEEDS.

COMMITTEE TO FRAME REPORT.

(Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 31.

A committee has been established, with Sir Henry Maybury (a wellknown authority of traffic and a member of the London Passenger Transport Board) as chairman, to report to the Secretary of State for Air on civil aviation at Home. The committee will take into account the requirements of the Post Office for air mails and the relation between aviation and other forms of transport. It is understood that a survey by the Air Ministry on lines on which Home air services might develop has been in progress for some time, and a report will be issued shortly, which will help the planned development of regular air sei’vices by indication of routes, and the study of the possibilities of night flying, and of the provision of beacons and air-port lighting systems.—British Official Wireless.