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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 139, 15 June 1938, Page 7

Front, where he. served with the Royal Engineers until 1915, when he was woun<led. For the two following years he was in America in charge of contracts for munitions for Great Britain, and in the last year of the war served in the Admiralty in the Department of Civil Engineer-in-Chief. For a time after the Armistice he was in charge of liquidation of ordnance and engineering contracts for the Ministry of Munitions. In 1922 he became finst general manager of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Ltd., to became managing director a year later.

FRENCH AIR POWER. Confidence in Construction Plans. EXPANSION OF PERSONNEL. (Received-10 a.m.) PARIS, June 14. Confidence that French plans for aircraft construction were progressing satisfactorily was expressed by the Minister for Air, M. Guy Lachambre, at the Inner Council of Ministers. He said that the scheduled mass production had begun of 300-mile-an-hour fighters, a squadron of which would take part in the air review in honour of King George's visit. The council passed decrees substantially expanding the personnel of the Air Force. BURST INTO FLAMES. Australian Air Force 'Plane Wrecked. PILOT BURNED TO DEATH. SYDNEY, June 14. A Royal Australian Air Force aeroplane returning to Richmond from manoeuvres near St. Mary's, 40 miles from Sydney, crashed this afternoon and burst into flames. • The pilot was burned to death and the passenger was so severely burned that he was unable to state what happened. The pilot was R. Pomeroy, and the other occupant of the machine was Aircraftsman I. C. Purdy.