TASMAN HOP.
Aviation Authorities' Power Defined. CANNOT STOP FLIGHT. i (Received 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. The Acting-Controller of Civil Aviation, pointing out that Miss Batten's machine had a British certificate of airworthiness, said that if the machine had to be overloaded with petrol for the Tasnian crossing a communication would be sent to the British Air Ministry. It was also stated by the Acting-Controller-General that although the board regarded Miss Batten's Tasnian flight as hazardous and considered that ] t should be discouraged, it had no power to prevent it. Referring to a suggestion that the Royal Australian Air Force should provide an escort across the Tasnian lor Miss Batten, Mr. J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister, said that he conferred with the Minister of Defence, Sir Arclulale Parkhill, and the matter would receive lull consideration by the Government. The Secretary of the Defence Depart? ■Bent at Melbourne, however, said there Was no possibility of the Air Force providing an escort for Miss Batten. He added that the Air Force did not have an y machines available for such a purpose.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 7
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