ADMITTANCE TO AERO CLUB
Sir,—Aero clubs throughout New Zealand receive regular and substantial financial assistance from the Government. Their claim and justification for this is based on the ground that they train a reserve of young pilots. How then can it happen that a young friend of mine, after saving for years to learn to fly. was refused admission by the Canterbury Aero Club, not for any medical or personal grounds but, my friend tells me, because of some dislike the committee had for the person who him. He apparently has no appeal to the club against this injustice, but it seems to me that while the club takes public funds it has no right to treat people in such cavalier fashion.—Yours, etc., PER ARDUA AD ASTRA. May 31, 1954. [The president of tjje Canterbury Aero Club (Dr. W. G. Todd) had no comment to make when this letter was referred to him.]
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27367, 4 June 1954, Page 9
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