THE AERO CLUBS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 253, 23 September 1935, Page 6

THE AERO CLUBS.

MANAWATU STATISTICS.

WELLINGTON, Sept. 23 Interesting statistics regarding the aero clubs operating in the Dominion at the present time are given in an appendix to the Defence Report presented to Parliament. The table gives the aero clubs a total membership of 2930. Anckland heads the list in nearly all departments in the table for the operations of last year, having seven aircraft that have flown 2600 hours, training 19 pilots, and possessing a aural 1 membership of 757. Canterbury comes next on. the list, so far as flying operations are concerned, with 22 new pilots and 1571 hours flying, although the total membership is only 234. Western Federated (North Island) has the second largest membership, 429, and West Coast United (South Island), 400 members, third, although it is the latest club approved. Manawatu, the only club in the list not approved by the Government for the purposes of subsidy, trained seven pilots, and flew 698 hours, the membership being 70. Details are as follow, the returns being for the year eliding March 31, laSt: - Total Pilots No. of Hours member- • trained, aircraft. flown. s *l‘P - Auckland 19 1 . 2600 ' 757

West ern Federated 11 3 952 429 Hawke’s Bay 8 Wairarapa 11 Wellington 11 Marlborough 6 3 2 5 2 1293 636 1033 407 178 21C 250 122 234 170 143 70 Canterbury 22 Otago 12 Southland H Manawatu 7 3 3 5 2 1571 1243 1239 692 West Coast 400 United 2 —