CIVIL AVIATION
AUSTRALIAN EXPENDITURE [fp.om our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Jan. V2 The Commonwealth Government proposes to spend 50 per cent more on civil aviation development and administration in 1940-41 than was spent last financial year. The increase proposed in the Budget is from £822,935 to £1.255,000. w The Minister for the Air, Mr. McEwen, said that the increase was due primarily to the fact that the needs of the Poyal Australian Air Force had been reconciled with civil aviation development. It was recognised that the facilities available now to both the Ro.val Australian Air Force and civil aviation would benefit commercial air interests after the war. Although war services must have priority, it was desirable that there should be a steady development of civil aviation facilities, which were of great value to the lighting air arm. Attention is to be paid to improvements of aerodromes and the provision of radio communication and direction-finding stations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23870, 22 January 1941, Page 8
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