AIR TRAVEL HABIT
!, - ; f‘' ’ V NEW MINISTER’S AIM. “ENTHRALLED BY JOB.” LONDON, February 7. General Thomson, the new Air Minister, :e has a “live’ 7 and progressive mind. Be d states that discussion of aerial developi- ment and Air Force expansion has ah -• ready occupied much of the Cabinet’s time. “The Burney airship scheme i.as not vet been decided/’ he said. “Airships are vital for both civil and military par- - poses. I am emphatically in favour oP i encouraging airship development along the main 'lmperial routes for mails and passengers. When we are able to get Australia's Prime Minister to Britain in a fortnight for discussion of Empire affairs, (he problem of air communication vill have been solved. £ “That expresses my aim. lam eni thralled by my job, and regard it as one - of the greatest jobs in the world, because I it means new progress in a new form of : travel, with most fascinating problems. t “I W ant to get the British everywhere 5 cultivate the air travel habit, and be- ’’ come the foremost air navigatirs. Bnt- . ain's future is in the air quite as much
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19107, 28 February 1924, Page 9
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