PILOT-INSTRUCTOR RETIRES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 259, 29 July 1937, Page 10

PILOT-INSTRUCTOR RETIRES

Squadron Leader Chandler By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, July 28. Squadron Leader N. E. Chandler, pilot-instructor to the Marlborough Aero Club, and virtual founder of the club, hag announced his retirement from Iho position in order to enter private business.

Squadron Leader Chandler, who is one of tlie best-known aviators in New Zealand, served with the Royal Flying Corps during the .war, and subsequently was an officer in the New Zealand Territorial Air Force. Foreseeing the possibilities of the Government’s subsidised aero club scheme, Squadron Leader Chandler in 1928 took the initiative in forming the Marlborough club. He has been pilot-instruc-tor ever since. He has over 4000 hours of flying to his credit, and he has trained nearly 100 pilots.

Under the Wellington Beautifying Society's scheme, work is proceeding steadily at. North Terrace, Kelburn, where land comprising in all over one acre of sloping banks, situated on tlie north side of the steps leading down to tlie Glen, is being transformed into a rhododendron dell. Donations, and promises of memorial plants, are being received from residents, but the convenor of the Wellington sub-committee, Mrs. Charles Haines, would be grateful for an early response from others interested 'in this beautifying project. Everything points to a successful ceremony on Arbor Day, August 11. Superintendent! A. Cameron and Chief-Detective W. H. Dunlop, Christ.church, and Superintendent S. Rawle, and Chief-Detective J. B. Young, Dunedin, have returned" south after a brief visit to Wellington,