CIVIL AVIATION
TEXT OF GOVERNMENT’S BILL ANNUAL SUBSIDIES FOR AIR ROUTES (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 31st January. The text of tlie Government’s Air Navigation Bill embodying proposals for a subsidy of air transport and for future regulations of civil aviation was published to-day. The Secretary for Air is empowered, subject to Treasury approval, to enter into long-term agreements for air. services. The sum of £1,000,000, which is the present limit of the total of the annual subsidies for airroutes. is increased to £1,500,000, which is intended to cover subsidies proposed in the scheme of Imperial air routes announced last December, as well as the inauguration and development of a British air service across the Atlantic and the maintenance and development of other routes. . .
Any contributions by Dominion or Colonial Government in support ol imperial routes will correspondingly reduce the amount to be contributed by the United Kingdom Government. The Bill also proposes to give effect to tlie suggestions of the Gorrell Committee with a view to the relief of private flying from unnecessary official regulation. The Secretary of Air will devolve control of design, construction am* maintenance of civil aircrait on a boaul representative of civil aviation interests concerned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 3 February 1936, Page 2
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