PROGRESS IN FLYING

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 122, 8 February 1923, Page 7

PROGRESS IN FLYING

BRITISH EXPENDITURE REDUCED MILITARY AVIATION’S CLAIMS BY TBLEGBAPH.—FBKM ASSOCIATION. —Copyright. London, February 6. Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary for Air), in opening the Air Conference at tho Guildhall, said that it was a tragedy that, at tho moment when they wished to embark on world wide schemes of aviation and development, national expenditure was reduced to a bare subsistence from the level of postwar expenditure, while confusion continued. Military aviation must have tho first call on the nation’s purse. Personally, he regarded a huge expenditure on armaments as an intolerable burden on trade and industry, and an outrage on Christian civilisation itself. Within the necessary financial limits he was determined to try to develop civil aviation. He desired to see an Imperial air service started soon, either by airships or aeroplanes. It was a matter for Cabinet and the Dominions to decide. The subject needed an instructed public opinion. He did not desire that air questions should be discussed in the terminology of “stunts.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FRANCE LEADING THE WAY (Rec. February 7, 7.15 p.m.) London, February 6. General Brancker. addressing the Air Conference, referred to t'he general progress outside the Empire. France was leading the way., while Germany did a lot of flying in 1922. As regards overseas, Australia led the wav. ’’ She had organised long inland nir routes. In future heights of 30,000 feet ami speeds of 300 miles an hour would bo possible.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.