"LAW IS AN ASS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 7

"LAW IS AN ASS.

"Muddle-headed Australia," Says British Journal. AVIATION MATTERS. LONDON, February 17. "Australia's muddle headednesn in regard to air matters," is referred to in an article in "Aeroplane," which comments on Goya Henry and Dr. Fentoii, the flying doctor. In an analysis of Henry's appeal to the High Court. it' says:— "Henry seems to have thrown a stone into the pool of Australian aviation politics which has raised a fair number of ripples. He also seems to have performed a public service in showing up the hopeless ruuddle-headednees of Australia as regards air matters. "The situation was ludicrously Gilbertiun, and. ae operators are apparently still obeying regulations which have been pronounced invalid by the High Court, it remains ho. "The whole matter seems to boil down to another example of the law being an ass, but Australia has now a chance to put its house in order about air regulations, and make the law an embodiment of everything that is excellent." Of Dr. Fen ton it says: "Dr. Fen ton is one of those refreshing anachronisms which sometimes relieve a too-stand-ard ised age. His habit of flying, for financial reasons, unairworthy aeroplanes, has caused him to be regarded unfavourably by the Common wealth air authorities. "The fact that he has crashed more than once did not reassure them. On the contrary, the patients, constituents, or whatnots of the Darwin region esteem the doctor who fly* to their remoter settlements in answer to appeals, in almost any weather, on a subsidy of £100 a year. "The two camps have had their *et - to. Both won easily. Dr. Kent on end* in a strong position, with nil stakes, Having two perfectly airworthy 'planes, one for week-days and one for weekends, or one for black patient* ami one for white, or one for maternity caws and one for eternity cases —but that is merely a doctor's dilemma, modern stvle."