INCREASED VOTE FOR AERO CLUBS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25270, 23 August 1947, Page 8

INCREASED VOTE FOR AERO CLUBS

LAST YEAR’S SUBSIDY NOT YET RECEIVED

While aero clubs would be pleased to see that the vote for grants and subsidies to them had been raised by £5030 on last year’s figures, they would be much happier to see the promised subsidy of £15,000 for 1946-47 on their balance sheets, said the president of the Canterbury Aero Club and vicepresident of the Royal New Zealand Aero Club (Mr H. D. Christie), commenting yesterday on the sum of £20,000 placed on the Estimates for club subsidies in 1947-48.

The form of the subsidy had been agreed upon by a commission in December, 1946, and, although the Minister in charge of Air Department (Mr F. Jones), had later advised that the matter had gone before the Treasury, clubs had had no word about receiving the money, he said. No club looked for anything for nothing, and all were willing to give service for the subsidy as they had done in the past. “This year’s estimate looks all right on paper, but it would look better on the ■ records of the clubs,” said Mr Christie. “I hope that it will be a little more tangible in form than it has been in the past.”