BRITISH AEROPLANES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 15

BRITISH AEROPLANES

Sir, —In your issue of June 20 appeared a cablegram which stated that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith had submitted to the Federal Cabinet plans for a transtasman air service. He proposes to link two British Dominions with foreign aircraft. To me this seems somewhat incongruous. England can provide suitable machines for this important undertaking, and I suggest that our Government should decline to associate itself financially or otherwise with any scheme which has a foreign taint. It is necessary that public authorities should set an example and practise what they preach and "Buy British." As yet, I have not seen the "habit" theory advanced. From the first, children should be educated and taught to use and buy within the Empire, for which their forefathers fought. Messrs. Forbes and Coates are at present visiting New Zealand's chief marketplace, their objective being a higher price for our primary products. I wonder what England will think of Australia and New Zealand if their own Empire air link was spanned with American machines. Tommxe Arnold.