AIR SERVICES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23065, 16 June 1938, Page 14

AIR SERVICES

ADDITIONAL INSPECTOE OFFICERS FROM OVERSEAS MR. R. C. KEAN'S SUCCESSOR [BY TELEGBAPH —PBEBB ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Because of the rapid expansion of air services and aircraft operations within the Dominion, it has been found necessary to augment the staff of the inspectional branch of the Air Department. • , The Minister in charge of the department, the Hon. F. Jones, announced this evening that Mr, A. P. Hunt had been selected to fill the position of aircraft inspector, with headquarters at Wellington. Mr. Hunt and his family were expected to leave England for the Dominion within the next few weeks.

Mr. Hunt, said the Minister, was an associate of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in addition was a licensed ground engineer and pilot. He served his apprenticeship with the Handley Page Company and for 10* years was chief inspector for various civilian aircraft companies. Mr. Hunt had also been employed by Airspeed Oxford, Limited.

As already announced, the chief inspector of aircraft for the Dominion, Mr. R. C. Kean, is going abroad, and Mr. E. J. Carpenter, who left Croydon by air on May 19, arrived in New Zealand last week on exchange with Mr. Kean. The Minister said Mr. Carpenter, who would have his headquarters at Wellington, had served with the Fairey Aviation Company and with the Westland Aircraft Company as senior inspector. Mr. Carpenter had been associated with the Fairchild Aviation Company. He was in Canada as aviation engineer and photographer, and had seen service with Canadian Airways as the company's inspector. Mr. Carpenter was with Imperial Airways in Irak, Egypt, Palestine and India, and for the last 14 years had been attached to the aeronautical inspection directorate of the Air Ministry.