EMPIRE UNITY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1925, Page 9

EMPIRE UNITY

BRITISH PILOT THE PIONEER THE MENACE OF GREAT DISTANCES IMPORTANCE OF AVIATION Br Telegbaph— Press Association. Copybight London, November 18. Sir Samuel Hoare, Minister for Air, is broadcasting to-night an address on the importance of aviation to the Empire. "There is no more urgent Empire question,” he says, "than the improvement of communications to enable personal visits in the field of politics and trade’to clear up difficulties insurmountable by cable. The distance between the chief points of the Empire is the greatest menace to Empire unity.” He declared his conviction that the British pilot would prove to be the pioneer of Empire unity. He did not suggest that there should be a chain of Empire air routes within the twinkling of an eve, but the day was drawing nearer when great distances would be annihilated. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

■ CIVIL AVIATION IN ■ ? AUSTRALIA GOVERNMENT PROMISED (Rec. November 19, 9.10 p.m.) Melbourne, November 19. The Minister of Defence has decided to assist civil aviation bv providing flying sections of approved aero clubs in Svdnev and Melbourne with equipment during the first two years, sufficient to train forty pilots annually, and an annual grant for each pilot trained thereafter is predicted. The scheme will enable young men to learn to flv at a reasonable cost, encourage private ownership, tend to stimulate local manufacture of . aircraft, and create a reserve of pilots for defence purposes. The cost the first year is estimated at £lO,OOO, which will Le reduced bv 25 ncr cent, for the second year.—Press Assn.

MESSAGE OF PRESS CON- / FERENCE BETTER COMMUNICATION ESSENTIAL London, November 18. The '’Daily Telegraph,” apropos of the departure homeward of the last of the Empire Press delegates, devotes an editorial to a review of the work of the Imperial Press Conference. It acknowledges the generous hospitality of the peoples of New Zealand and Australia, and trusts that the conference resolutions will be the subject of appropriate action in order to establish closer contact. It says: “The peoples of the Empire must have ampler means of communication, free and untrammelled as well as cheap. That is the message of "the conference.” —Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn.