SAFETY ON AIR ROUTES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21827, 6 July 1936, Page 8

SAFETY ON AIR ROUTES

ELIMINATING FQ(| J| DANGERS I m NEED OF SIGNALLING SYSTEM SEEN J '■* PROGRESS OF SERVICE fl NEW ZEALAND i‘ The safety of air services Zealand is not entirely uu without the provision of beam m less or the installation and maw ance of some form of wireleatl phony or telegraphy between J aeroplanes and the ground. 9 view is expressed in the repssfl the former Transport Co-ordiaaj| Board for the year ended Kudu It is held to apply especially fill main air services. II *"1116 board thinks the mattql one for the technical adviam| the Government to consider in el junction with the companies m cerned,” the report states, frame regulations presaihinf * methods of communication at 1 be decided upon. 3 “The climate of New Zestejl many places is subject to Imm clouds and fog, and the dM arising from this source carl eliminated to a large extent J proper methods of board regards this matt«a|| of great importance In the iamm both of the passengers aod' UB companies carrying on air tM A summary of am transports tics as at hutch 31 is at IbOm Four regular services; It services (companies 6, sect m 10); number of machines Mm for these services, 58. Encouraging SeeaßA ..Jg In the period of operation II route services 10,225 passesgnH carried over a total distamH 377,671 miles. The suecen M services in providing safe buH indicated by a table ahovlqH one accident involving tajH No accidents involving sadiM Jury are recorded. 9 “The board has had two wji view,” the report adds. *VH| provide for the safety of all InH services, and second, to proesljH a rational plan from a soundjfl ning. It would not be dcain|H our opinion, from the point mH of safety or utility, to start on a large scale before It Ir|H whether air travel cm> be ful financially,* and whether fIH sired by any large sectiaanH people. We believe that ill foundation has been laid vH licensing of the existing vices; and by the will be gained from them it wH possible to judge better terifH to time what further needed." JI-'IM