AEROPLANE AFTERMATH MORE CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 77, 1 April 1914, Page 3

AEROPLANE AFTERMATH MORE CORRESPONDENCE.

More touespondence has been received in reference Uj.ths wreck of Mr. J..W. H. Scotland's aeroplane last, week, and. subsequent criticism through the prpi.s on various points connected with it. As little fresh matter m contained in th«.e letters, it is deemed sufficient to &et out the main points in summary. L. Hines writes expr&ssing his indig nation at the allegation that the Wellington public practically forced Mr. Scotland to make a. Hight. The demon elration at the park on Saturday was made by_ a very sn all section of the crowd without "a grrin of sense in their composition." "The- peoplo of Wellington feel keenly for Mr. Scotland," sayb our correspondent, "and 1 hope we >shall be able to show our sympathy in a practical manner, no tha.t Mr. Scotland may be able to remain in Wellington to- give borne- more of hie brilliant exhibitions under decent conditions to sympathetic spectators. I enclose a small donation (3s) with this object." "One Who Likes To Know" writes asking for further information in regard to Saturday's gathering at the park, lie wants to know why tho uyudicato, knowing practically for a certainty that Mr. Scotland could make no flight on Saturday afternoon, encouraged an ignorant public to part with its phillings. lie also asks why the public should not have streamed over the ground after a. long wait and endeavoured to see tho machine and ascertain if anything was to be done-; also why those who were not able to attend at any other time to see a flight should not have had the option of getting their money back. Ho wants the syndicate to remove any doubt as to its position to publish a- statement of receipts and expenditure. He also wan(6 to know why, if the machine could have been repaired, there should be any need, for public bubsmpt-ione-. He objects to comparisons of the Wellington public with other publics, whose tolerance was put to no test. (Some of these questions were answered in Saturday' 6 Post in a footnote to similar letters.) "Island Bay" writes in a satiric vain, rejturrmig a 2s pace out ticket as a, contribution, declaring that he does not wish to "retain anything to remind him of the trouble that day (Saturday)."