Airline Pilots To Confer In City Next Week-end

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29860, 28 June 1962, Page 11

Airline Pilots To Confer In City Next Week-end

About 80 representatives of tour airlines from all parts of New Zealand will meet in Christchurch on Friday at the New Zealand Airline Pilots’ Association’s annual conference. The airlines represented will be National Airways Corporation, Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., Airlines of New Zealand, and Straits Air Express. It would be the first meeting the association had run along “conference lines.” said the Christchurch branch secretary (Captain D. C. Emmett) yesterday. It was normal practice overseas for hhe International Federation of Airline Pilots’ Associations to have annual conferences and it was the ambition of the New Zealand association to run an international conference in the Dominion. First Attempt “To get into practice we considered hawing a Dominion conference and this coming week-end will be our first attempt.” said Captain Emmett.

The conference will begin on Friday morning with subcommittee meetings. In the afternoon the annual meeting of the association will be held before a coaktail party at Elizabeth House in the evening, which the Minister of Civil Aviation (Mr McAlpine) is expected to attend. The annual meeting of the North Island Airline Pilots' Industrial Union will be held on Saturday morning before extraordinary meetings of both the union and association. Members of the Christchurch branch of the association will operate three scenic flights over Banks Peninsula on Saturday afternoon for 78 orphaned city children. The half-hour flights will be followed by films and refreshments.