PRACTICAL AIRMANSHIP.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20510, 1 April 1932, Page 10

PRACTICAL AIRMANSHIP.

_ 0 GIFT OF TROPHY TO AERO j CLUB. (PRB9U AS3OCIA.TIOS TBLEOEAit.) INVERCARGiLL, March 31. Mr G. M. Spence, president of the New Zealand Aero Club, who is visiting Southland, has received advice that Mr F. V. Lysons, of Hawera, and the family of the late Mr Cyril "Cory fright have given a cup for stimulating the development of practical airmanship. It is suggested that the trophy should be competed for at the annual official | pageants alternately in the North and South Islands, but the donors leave it to the New Zealand Aero Club to attach the conditions. ] ter and secure other relief work in the ordinary way. ' . Dealing generally with the points raised in the dispute, Mr Coates said: "The rates of pay offered, namely £&i 10s or 37s 6d per week, according- to the number of dependent children, are, as I have repeatedly emphasised, in the nature or a relief allowance. They cannot be regarded as wages for normal employment. Though the amount payable is thus limited, it is to be pointed put that if every unemployed worker were given the rates thus offered, the total cost would exceed the available income of the unemployment funds, even if the tax on wages, etc., were increased to Is in the £. The absolute necessity for restricting the sums payable will therefore bo evident. "As I have informed you, there is no objection to the supplementing of the relief allowance by the River Trust or by any other employing body in like circumstances. so far as it concern* men who did not accept the_ work offering under the Trust, I desire to repeat my assurance that they will not be victimised by being debarred from such other relief work as may be available. Thev will, however, understand that through the increasing pressure upon available. City work, men who are not willing to take work outside Citv areas must inevitably be faced with greater difficulty in being placed." . ... '.*'■■'