CIVIL AVIATION

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 51, 23 November 1928, Page 10

CIVIL AVIATION

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE GREAT INTERNATIONAL GATHERING The Dominion will be represented at the International Civil Aeronautical Convention to be held at Washington next month by Mr. H. R. Dix, president of the Marlborough Aero Club, and Captain H. N. Barlow, who left Auckland by the Aorangi on Tuesday. At Honolulu they will tranship to the Matson liner Ventura, and will proceed to Sau Francisco, where they are due on December 6. At San Francisco the delegates will be met by representatives of the United States Department of Commerce, and they will travel by aeroplane across country to Chicago, where they will spend four days at the big aviation exhibition to be held in that city. From Chicago they will fly to Washington to attend the sessions of the convention, which will be the largest aud most important gathering of the kind ever held and at which many problems of civil aeronautics will be discussed by experts of various nations. New Zealand will be one of the few countries not represented ' by official Government delegates. Australia is sending five delegates, including two Government representatives, one of whom is Colonel H. C. Brinsmead, Director of Aviation. Canada, South Africa, and India will also be officially represented. The delegates to the convention will number several hundred, and will include representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and other European countries and most of the South American Republics. A lavish programme of entertainment and an extensive itinerary is being arranged by the Department of Commerce for the visiting delegates. After the convention they will fly to Kittyhawk Field, North Carolina, noted as the scene of the world’s first aeroplane flight, made by Wilbur Wright. The delegates will then fly to New York, via Washington. The travelling expenses of the delegates are being r,°t by the United States Department ot' Commerce.