FAMOUS AIRMEN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 285, 30 October 1934, Page 7

FAMOUS AIRMEN.

INVITATION TO DOMINION

PREMIER ASKS CLUBS TO CO-OPERATE.

(By Telegraph..—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 29.

Plans which the Prime Minister will assist in promoting appear likely to secure a splendid representation of famous aviators in the Dominion in the near future. Following up negotiations in Melbourne, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P. (Mayor of Christchurch) with Mr W. S. Glenn, a former member of the House, communicated by radio-telephone with Mr Forbes to-day requesting him to approach all the aero clubs in the Dominion in an endeavour to get a guarantee amounting to between £SOOO and £6OOO to cover tlie expenses of a New Zealand visit of all the principal pilots in the air race from England to Melbourne.

There is no suggestion of a Government grant. The Prime Minister states that he has agreed to follow up the suggestion, which is that Messrs Scott and Black, Parmentier and Moll, Pangborn and Turner, Hewett and Kay, and McGregor and Walker, and possibly others, be invited to participate, though there was no proposal to make a transtasmaii race of it.

Mr Forbes remarked that the aero clubs no doubt would greatly benefit from such an arrangement, and it was highly likely that the gate takings would meet the cost. He will submit the proposal to various clubs.