CIVIL AVIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 42, 18 August 1939, Page 8

CIVIL AVIATION

INCREASES IN THE VOTE

The big increase in the amount of money expended on civil aviation is commented on in the annual report of the Air Department, which was tabled in the House yesterday. The report states that the vote for civil aviation has, with three exceptions, increased progressively from year to year, and for the purposes of comparison the actual amounts voted and the amount expended are shown hereunder: — . Voted. Expended. '£ £ 1929-30 7.800 7,532 1930-31 ",600 7,057 1031-32 2,200 2.093 1932-33 4,750 4,243 1933-34 7,250 1.513 1934-35 14,850 11.318 1035-Sfi 20.014 13,171 19Sfi-37 21,914 21,802 1937-SS 42.234 35,490 1935-39 50,871 46,031 The expenditure of last year's vote was allocated as follows: — Vote. Expended. £ - £ Salaries 8,491 3,509 Aeradin services 10,000 4.470 Land ins-grounds, incidental expenses •. 5,000 5,149 Equipment and to si Is 9flo 807 Examinations 50 14 International Commission for Air Navigation 250 170 Investigation of accidents . 250 194 Loans to clubs for purchase of aircraft 15,000 15.955 Meteorological services 10,000 9.90S Purchase of aircraft for loans to clubs 1,200 1,261 Hawke's Bay flood relief .. 1,940 1,738 Exchange of personnel .... 1,500 1,200 Travelling allowances 1.250 1,591 Miscellaneous 40 3.i Totals ..'. £50,871 £46.031 "In addition to the item for landinggrounds," says the report, "there also appeared on the vote for maintenance of public works and buildings the sum of £350,000 for aerodrome work, of which £70,000 was for Air Force aerodromes. Allocations to civil aviation were as follows:—Civil aerodromes and emergency landinggrounds, £175,000; maintenance of emergency landing-grounds, £17,500; radio facilities for aerodromes, £52,500; landing-grounds, aeradio. and meteorological facilities in New Zealand Pacific Island dependencies, £17,500; other aerodrome and air-route facilities, £17.500." _______________