LIQUOR AND FLYING.
MELBOURNE, June 29. The New Zealander who was recently lined £5 for being drunk in an aeroplane has set a -record for both countries, as far as could be discovered to-day, Australian contenders for ins title are unlikely to appear, for regulations under the Air Navigation Act provide a fine of up to £2OO or imprisonment of up to six months, or both, for anyone who, "while in a state of intoxication, enters or is m an aeroplane.”
With admirable foresight, the authorities have provided against disorderly conduct, or using a sedative or narcotic or stimulating drug in aeroplanes, under pain of similar penalties. Airlines supply tea, coffee, soft drinks or water on many routes, and find these content most passengers. Some asked hostesses for spirits, bu; took the disappointment in good part, the traffic manager of Australian National Airways, Mr. Dare Holyman, said to-day. The only Australian aeroplanes on which intoxicating liquor is served are the Hying-boats of Quantas-Empiro Airways, w r hich have a steward, not a hostess.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 July 1938, Page 7
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