AIR ADVISER.
EXPERT COMING.
MR. FRANCIS BERTRAM DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND. trans-tasman service. ;Bj- Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, this day. The Prime Minister stated to-day that the Government, having requested the Imperial Government to place at its disposal an officer to advise it in regard to aviation Mr. Francis Bertram, deputy-Director of Civil Aviation in the Air Ministry, will leave England this week by the Imperial Airways service for Sydney, thence for New Zealand.
Mr. Bertram, who has been deputyDirector of Civil Aviation for ten years, has already had close acquaintance with aviation problems in the Tasinan and the Pacific, for he was the Imperial Government's representative at a conference held in Australia nearly two years ago. This was attended by tlio former Postmaster-General, the Hon. A. Hamilton, and the Director-General of the Post Office, Mr. George McNamara. The main subjcct was a proposal to extend Imperial Airways CroydonSydney service across the Tasinan, and to carry all first class mails on this route by air. Mr. Bertram was the first passenger on the Imperial Airways London-Capetown service in January, 1932. He flew from London to Brisbane and back in January, 1935.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 8
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189AIR ADVISER. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 207, 2 September 1936, Page 8
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