BRITISH AIR EXPERT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 99, 29 April 1938, Page 7

BRITISH AIR EXPERT.

May Visit New Zealand After Australia. COMMONWEALTH PLANS. CANBERRA. April 28. Air Marshal Sir Edward Kllin - ton. j Inspect,.,• -Ccm'i-iil ~f the Knyal Air Force, who Iwis been invited by the Commonwealth < iovcrnnient to visit Australia and report on tho existing organisation and 1 lie lines of the proposed expansion of the Koval Australian Air Force, will also visit New Zealand and Canada after his inspection of the' Australian Air Force stations. Legislation now before the Commonwealth Parliament provides for the raising of a defence loan of £10.1)0(1.000. of which £4.000.000 will he floated immediately, and an additional £l r ooo.000 will l>e provided toward the cost of organising civil industry for national defence. The coastal defences around Australia will be modernised, mechanised and ureatly strengthened, and will be equipped with wireless. An anti-submarine school is to be established at Sydney. I,ar«je ammunition dumps are to he laid down in suitable locations. Sir Edward Ellington was appointed I I InspccUM-Keneial ~i ill,. Roy,,! Ail Force I last year. He became Dit ecloi -Ceneral oil I Military Aeronautic* in :h» Middle Kant I in 1918, and relinquished tli.it command ' in 1923. mi hi* appointment as Air Officer ( , oinmandinji. Royal Air Force. India. In November, Mr2b. he w.is appointed to the com in and of the ISiitinh forces in 11 <<<i. From 1920 to 1031 Sir Edward wan ()rh'cei -Com ma ndinjr-in -Chief, Air Force. Britain. In March. 1030. he was appointed principal Air Aide-de-Camp to the Kin;;. which he held for four yearn. ; Sir Edward from 1931 to 1933 was Air ; Member for Personnel of the Air Council. and from 11)33 to 1937 wae Chief of the Air Staff. NOT NOTIFIED. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT. I ■ ■ I In a conversation last nijjht, the Hon. F. Jones. Minister of Defence, said: "The New Zealand Government lias made no! request that Sir Edward Ellington! should visit the Dominion. Since I I returned to Wellington froir Auckland yesterday morninjr I have not personally had any notification of such a visit, but if Sir Kdward Ellington is coining a communication is certain to be sent I to the (iovernnient. It may be that j the British Government has asked him | to see what we are doing here on his way back to England."