AVIATION IN NEW ZEALAND.
FORMATION OF AERO CLUB SUGGESTED.
WELLINGTON, May 9. Lieutenant-colonel Bettington, Air Force Adviser to the New Zealand Government, has suggested that a New Zealand Aero Club should bo formed on similar lines to that at Home, with branches in different centres throughout the country. Ho stated that if aviation was to bo developed on practical lines in New Zealand it was highly desirable that an Aero Club should bo formed, promoting the necessry interest and knowledge particularly from a civilian point of view. Ihero could be no doubt aviation was going to become one of the big factors in transport in the future, and if it was to bo taken the fullest advantage of the promotion of knowledge was urgently necessary. It was undoubtedly the coming meang of transport fn New Zealand, especially for long distanoes.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3400, 14 May 1919, Page 7
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