AVIATION

Grey River Argus, 23 September 1936, Page 5

AVIATION

BRITISH CIVIL AIRCRAFT.

RUGBY, September 19. A report on the progress of civil aviation shows a marked expansion in the use of air travel and transport. The mileage of British civil aircraft on Continental, Empire and internal services is more than double that of last year. Passengers increased GO per cent, and mails 300 per cent. LORD SEMPILL’S JOURNEY DARWIN, September 22. Lord Sempill’s plane arrived from Koepang. Late Campbell Black CREMATION OF REMAINS LONDON, September 21. Draped with the Union Jack, and covered with flowers, Campbell Black’s coffin arrived at Euston. The remains will be cremated on Wednesday. WORLD WIDE TRIBUTES RUGBY, September 21. World-wide sorrow is expressed at the loss of the famous airman, Campbell Black. Lord Swinton, in a telegram of sympathv to Mrs. Black, who is wellknown as the actress. Florence Desmond, says: “Your husband’s career was worthy of the best traditions of British aviation, and his loss will be universally deplored.’’ . M. Pierre Cot, French Minister of Air, in a telegram to the Air Ministry expressed in the name of French aviation and himself personally, the deepest sympathy for the cruel blow to British aviation, hy the death ot a great figure in world aviation.