CIVIL AVIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1944, Page 5

CIVIL AVIATION

POST-WAR CONTROL

AGREEMENT WITH AUSTRALIA (Special P.A. Correspondent.) CANBERRA, January 19. Complete agreement on all important matters has been reached at the Aus-tralian-New Zealand Ministerial conference. The gathering will end with the drawing up and signing of a formal agreement between the two Dominions at a public session on Friday. The main decision of the conference at its final business session today was that Australia and New Zealand will support the establishment of an international aviation authority to have post-war control of international air routes. All countries, however, must have the_ right to control the internal air services within their own territories. The decision was released in a joint official statement by Mr. Fraser and Dr. Evatt, which said: "It was agreed that civil aviation should be subject to the general principle of international collaboration, and that air transport services should be included within the terms of a convention which would supersede the existing international convention on aerial navigation—with the powers revised and extended not only to regulate such matters as safe flying and navigation but also to control all international air trunk lines. "The two Governments agreed to support the principle that the ownership, operation, and control of international routes should be vested in an international air authority. Their support of this principle was subject to the understanding that (1) international trunk routes should be specified as part