PERSONAL PLANES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24894, 16 May 1944, Page 6

PERSONAL PLANES

■MR. KAISER OUTLINES PLAN NEW YORK, May 14 A comprehensive plan to provide longterm employment after the war for a great many of the 4,500,000 persons now connected with the aviation industry was proposed by Mr. Henry Kaiser in ■an address to the convention of the Congress of Industrial Organisations and the United Steel Workers. The plan, he said, would involve the establishment of 3000 to 5000 air terminals for the operation of personal planes, ' each terminal to be operated as a separate business unit under unified supervision. Mr. Kaiser pointed out that such a network would bring virtually every /area of the United States into such close contact that an individual flier would be able to cover the! nation in air hops of 25 to 50 miles. He predicted that 50,000 personal aeroplanes would be sold in the first two years after the war, and 1,000,000 planes in ten years. SUITS FOR EX-SOLDIERS DISSATISFIED AUSTRALIANS (Special Correspondent) SYDNEY, May 15 The Australian Government has increased by £1 the £2 10s clothing allowance given to discharged soldiers who reject the issue of a civilian suit.

' These suits, as well as the paucity of the alternative allowance, have been .condemned by thousands of ex-service-men. Returned soldiers' organisations are asking that discharged servicemen should be given a general issue of clothing of the finest cut and quality. City tailors, whose reduced staffs cannot cope with mounting orders, are reported to be asking customers to wait as long as seven months for suits.