AVIATION PUBLILS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 156, 1 July 1916, Page 5

AVIATION PUBLILS.

3D ESESIIPTION_FIIOM SBRyiOEK (By Telegraph —Parliamentary.Beporteji';. WEIirNGTOS", !Erid*y.2i While the Defence Estimates ■were heing disenssed in the HoiKe'tHis" afternoon, Dγ: Newman drew" matter which, he said was regarded.-in:». sinister • aspect -by--- a largepeople in the country i : The* r cdmplain« made was,that a:.number'.;of young men in New..Zealand-had: "with, the distinct object of escaping tion. put down their B'kmes-'.t& join., ; i!je aviation school at Aucfcland>;"and had paid the required deposit of £100, well knowing that the hope of obtaining ap: pointments. in the Aviation Corp6;wa3;o| the remotest kind. The' doctor addec that complaint was also being jnaie-tliaj; young Tenitorialofficerswere ehviourift shirking their duty, and that they ehqufsl either go into camp with-the Expeditionary Force or resign their commissions(. -- The Minister replied'that-he knew-nor thing about the payment of : £100 fof entering thie aviation "school... A", pupil paid for his tuition for the aviation course... If. he passed he went- to?Eng-: land, and perhaps might enter- the Hying Corps, but there Tva3 do exemption froja military service oh account s of, the ! o |aj!f that he had joined the Aviation .Corps He was just as subject to service ; a3';anj; other eligible man. " V,./,.": t.5