CIVILIAN AVIATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 50, 28 February 1923, Page 15

CIVILIAN AVIATION.

OTEMATXONAI. AIR COXGRESS I_GBT ACROSS TRANCE AND GERMANY. (from Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, January 11. N— ZealandeTS interested in flying will gladly note that the organisation ef the International Air Congress for 1523 has been taken In hand by a. strong executive committee, under the chairnaiiship of Major-General Sir F. H. Bytes. The official notice of the steps being tikes states that national committees —re been formed in several countries to prepare lists of names for memberihip of the Congress, and in other countries lists are being obtained through fie aero clubs or other representative Membership is limited to those wtmtries which are members of the federation Aeronautique Internationale « signatories of the International Air' (Wention. The subscription is to be i\ (or its equivalent in foreign curRndee) for a member and 10/ for an •nociate member, who must be a mem«r of the family of a member. The pipers to be read are divided into four ponps, which will hold sessions simultaneously, and will cover every aspect of the subject, from fundamental scientifc problems to such matters as pasaPwt regulations and the organisation of •J aerial transport company. The Air Knistry have arranged to hold the jojsl Air Force Pageant on June 30, foe final day of the Congress. Mr. C. V. ffflea having resigned, Lieut.-Colonel "•Lock-rood Marsh, the technical secft t*ry, has been appointed general •Wrtary of the Congress, the official "dress of which is c/o The Royal Aero. Jmtical Society, 7, Albemarle Street, ««flon, W.l. England. Gffleral Sir W. S. Branker, Director «.Civil Aviation, in reviewing recently ™ present position, confessed that it *M not as strong as it might have been, J« ke pointed out what had been done ty the Government to help this new **» of transport. Sir William adWed that, owing to the competition "three British firms on the London'•ris eervice, the scheme originated on J™ li 1922, had proved a failure. This *•" not surprising, since the traffic on J" route mentioned was only sufficient "*-ene firm. Consequently, a new scheme came into •Pwation on October 1 last, and this __y»ted competition between English j"*™ B -- It also provided for flying as j* as possible into Europe with the J*—-! assistance available. Sir Wil«B also rightly remarked that traffic 7* '"* first essential to success for «r transport, and anything short of _J™> Cologne, and Paris, did not give _hS_* « dranta -e8 over ordinary _+_* 0f tTaTel to ens ure proper supF? hy the public. Finally, if the con™«a upon which Germany proposed .join tho International Convention i Navigation were accepted (and ?.*"_ no reason why they should not ■I. the Director of Civil Aviation said »o M*i_7 cry im P OTtant ste P forward 2?" * made, as without living across | and France, it would be im- ] Wible to reach the East advanta-! JWnsly. .