"AIR HABIT"
MUST BE CULTIVATED ILLIMITABLE PATHWAYS LONDON, October 14. ''The British Isles are small, and offer little scope for aviation, but the Empire provides a limitless field 1 for enterprise in connection with air transport," says Lord. Thomson. Minister for Air in the Ramsay Macdonald Government, in an article in tho Weekly Ob(SorvAr 1 .
"We have won a great and dominant position by controlling 'the illimitable pathways of the sea.' These will still be , the backbone of Empire communications, bub the air provides a new system of arteries and veins which it would be perilous to neglect. "In order to preserve our position in the x world we must develop. the , still more illimitable pathways of the air, and cultivate the air habit," he concluded.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17175, 27 October 1926, Page 11
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