SAFETY OF AIRCRAFT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 13

SAFETY OF AIRCRAFT

ATTENTION IN DOMINION. Per Press Association. ■ WELLINGTON, June 24. "The Government is giving full consideration to the necessity* for New Zealand to keep abreast of overseas development regarding safety in aviation and the maintenance of the highest possible standard of efficiency and progress, and with a view to giving practical effect to this policy,” stated the Minister, of Defence (Hon. F. Jones) to-night, “arrangements have been made with the British authorities for the exchange of aircraft inspectors between Great Britain and New Zealand.” - Mr R. C. Kean, Chief Inspector of Aircraft in New Zealand, left to-night for Australia, en route to England. Mr Jones said that, while in Australia, he will .study the methods of the Australian Aeronautical Inspection Department. He will then proceed to England, where he will be on exchange with a British officer, Mr Carpenter, who flew out to Australia and recently arrived in New Zealand. Mr Kean will remain in England for about 12 months, after which he will return by way of the United States, -where, in Washington, he will spend six -weeks dr two months studying the methods of the Bureau of Air Commerce.