AIR DEPARTMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23527, 16 June 1938, Page 12

AIR DEPARTMENT

NEW INSPECTOR APPOINTED RAPID EXPANSION OF WORK (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Juno 15. 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 (Mr 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 family were expected to leave England for the Dominion within the next few weeks. Mr Hunt, the Minister said, 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 10J years was chief inspector for various civilian aircraft companies. Mr Hunt had also been employed by Airspeed Oxford, Ltd. “As already announced, the chief inspector of aircraft for (he 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 also been associated with the Fairchild Aviation Company. He was in Canada as an aviation engineer and photographer and had seen service with Canadian Airways as the company’s inspector. Mr Carpenter was with Imperial Airways in Iraq, Egypt. Palestine and India and for the last 14 years had been attached to the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate of the Air Ministry.