NO FURTHER LIGHT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11383, 8 December 1930, Page 5

NO FURTHER LIGHT

RlOl INQUIRY; CONCLUDED.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR INDIAN , TOUR.

WATCH-CHANGING LN DIRIGIBLE.

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The Airship Inquiry closed to day. Squadron-Leader Nixon, in charge of the organisation at Cardington, speaking under stress uf_ emotion, recalled- that Colmore inspired the drawing hip of- a document estimating the full requirements for the Indian trip and showing that much more difficult questions were expected going home. Colmore told witness that Scott 1 would ha ve'to satisfy him that the conditions were favorable before h$ sanctioned leaving Karachi, and would not run risks, even under .Lord Thomson’s pressure. He therefore asked for arrangements to be made to enable Lord Thomson to return by aeroplane by October 2Q if necessary. •', - ■ Witness added that. Colmore over two™ years' previously had urged that mooring masts. should he erected at .Malta and Bagdad, or Basra, not only in view of emergencies, but because they would be commercially sound when the service began. The Air Ministry answered that- the airship programme was already much ex-tended-.and the Treasury could not be asked for more money before some flying-was clone; ' Squadron-Leader Booth, questioned regarding Dr. Eckener’s- evidence, expressed the opinion that a ship generally does not- keep an accurate height after the changing of the watch. The going-off coxswain should stand by. the newcomer fop two or three minutes- to .see that he got the correct feel.