VISIT OF BRITISH AIR MISSION

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 8

VISIT OF BRITISH AIR MISSION

• Preliminary Inquiries By Mr. C. Howarth Senior technical officer of the British Government’s Directorate of Production, Mr. C. Howarth, who arrived at Wellington by the Wanganella recently, left by air on Saturday with Group Captain T. M. Wilkes, Director of Civil Aviation, for Rotorua and Auckland. Mr. Howarth came to New Zealand from Australia to make preliminary investigation into the potentialities of New Zealand industry in relation to aircraft manufacture, as a preliminary to the visit to New Zealand of the Air Mission appointed by the British Air Ministry to discuss with the Governments of Australia and New Zealand flhe possibilities of the manufacture of aircraft, now or in the future. Mr. Howarth will not remain in New Zealand for long, and he will not await the arrival of the members of the mission. who are Sir Hardman Lever, who headed tlie recent mission to Canada, Colonel Sir Donald Banks, Permanent Under-Secretary of Air, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, lately Commandant of tlie Imperial Defence College. The mission will have expert assistance from Mr. A. C. Boddis, Assistant Director of Contracts, who accompanied the Aircraft Mission to Canada, and Mr. E. G. Jackson, of the Air Ministry.