CIVIL AVIATION.
STATE GRANT SOUGHT.
DIFFICULTY OF FINANCE
[nv TE LEGR A r K. —r RES S ASSOCIATION.] NAPIER. Thursday.
A representative of the Napier Aero Club, Mr. It, C. Wright, waited on the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, in Napier this morning and urged that the Government should give financial help for the encouragement of civil aviation. Mr. Wright said the progress of aviation in New Zealand would be much greater if the inter-related control, from the military and civil aspects, were better. When any money was granted for aviation he asked that the civil aspect should be taken into consideration.
Sir Joseph, in reply, said everyone was sentimentally sympathetic toward aerial education, but the country could not maintain a duplicated system of defence. A time would come when aerial defence would have to be introduced, but that time had not yet come. When that time came the. expense would bo more than a country of this size could stand. Civil aviation was a much more costlv business than most people realised and the Government had to take that into consideration. The requests* be carefully considered by both the Minister of Defence and himself
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 12
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