AERO CLUBS GRATEFUL

Evening Star, Issue 20996, 9 January 1932, Page 9

AERO CLUBS GRATEFUL

+ PRESENTATION TO AIR CHIEF [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, January 8. The presentation of a silver tray ont behalf of the New Zealand Aero Club was made this afternoon _ to Wingcommander Grant-Dalton in appreciation of his services to aviation during his term of office of Director of Air Services. . _ ' On-behalf of Sir Francis Boys, the first president of the New Zealand Aero Club, Mr A. W. Nisbet, secretary of the Wellington Aero Club, made the presentation. He wished Wing-commander Grant-Dalton a safe and pleasant voyage and a speedy return to New Zealand. On behalf of the New Plymouth Aero Club, Mr Nisbet also presented Wing-commander Grant-Dalton with a framed photograph of Mount Egmont. Wing-commander Grant-Dalton, responding, said that before he left_ the service he told Squadron-leader Wilkea he would like to present a trophy for the four squadrons in New Zealand to compete for each year, the trophy to be presented to the most efficient squadron. He hoped the four squadrons in New Zealand would keep up to the mark. It was impossible to run the service unless training operations were carried out at least once a year.; The transport of air mail was one aspect of aviation which ho would like to see go ahead in New Zealand. He noticed that a service had been successfully run at Christmas time, anfl he thought that when the slump was over it might > be developed. The inscription on the gift tray is as follows Presented to Wing-com-mander S. Grant-Dalton on his departure from New Zealand by the New Zealand Aero Club (inc.).” This is followed by the names of the various aero clubs in New Zealand.