CIVIL AVIATION

Hawera Star, Volume L, 15 May 1930, Page 9

CIVIL AVIATION

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY MILLION A YEAR BILL PASSES SECOND READING. (United! Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, May 13. The House of Commons last" night passed the second reading of a rsili authorising the Air Ministry- to subsidise civil aviation on long-term agreements to the extent of £1,01)11,01)0 yearly for ten years. The Government’s policy was endorsed by the former Air Minister, Sir Samuel Roare, but lie suggested that .some of the money should be devoted to an experimental mail service with small machines travelling at- lot; miles an hour over stages of about /00 miles and flying by night. He suggested experiments to see if it would not he possible to unite; the air-taxi service between London and the. ports by the use of autogiro machines, and thought that the Charing Cross Bridge scheme offered possibilities for a centre in the heart of London lor these airta*The Air Minister (Mr. F. Montague) declined a general discussion on civil aviation prospects. He said that the question of an air service in the V est Indies was being investigated. Regarding airships the next stage must be to discover the extent to which long-distance flights could be made to scheduled time.