INTO THE MISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 233, 2 October 1925, Page 7

INTO THE MISTS.

FATE OF THE EMPIRE.

UNLESS FIRST PLACE BE KEPT

IN DEVELOPING AIRCRAFT. (By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright.) ■(Received 2 p;m.) LONDON, October 1. Air Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker forecasts that in the not distant future air transport will be as remunerative as shipping- or railways. He admitted that British air progress was disappointing. Its slowness of development was discouraging, and involved constant demands for financial assistance. Nevertheless, assuredly it would become the principal means of long-distance communication throughout the world.

Aviation would soon outstrip older forms of transport, and British aviation would possess as great a measure of importance to the nation as the shipbuilding industry in the past.

It was of the foremost; importance to the Empire that Britain should keep her place in the forefront of aviation, because she depended upon communications for her existence to a greater degree than any others. Unless she maintained them in the highest state, of efficiency and rapidity possible by scientific aircraft, the Empire assuredly would melt into the mists of the past-— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)