FLYING IN CANADA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 2

FLYING IN CANADA

PROGRESS REVIEWED CIVIL OPERATIONS SHOW GAINS OTTAWA, Feb. 12. Marked and consistent is the development of the aeroplane in its relation to commerce, transportation and exploration in Canada. 'Reporting on a year of aviation in the Dominion, the Civil Aviation branch of the Department of Natioal Defence shows that the commercial business of private companies made splendid progress in that period and anticipate with confidence further striking progress in tho next few months. The Government, on its part, has placed orders for 42 new machines of various types to replace 'planes worn out in its service, all to be manufactured wholly or in part in Canada and costing in all about £IOO,OOO. Six machines for photographic purposes cost £5200 each, Seven private companies in Canada now hold and operate 19 air mail contracts with the Post Office Department. Recent inauguration of an air service between St. Paul, Minnesota, and Winnipeg, Canada, forged the last link of a [IOOO-mile aerial chain extending from Buenos Aires, in Argentina, to Aklavik, in the Canadian Arctic, and extended the air mails from Eastern Canada to the Alberta foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Canada now has 309 private air pilots, 402 commercial pilots, .17!) air engineers and 496 aircraft, with 0!) air harbors. In the past year aircraft in the Dominion carried . r >!)lil passengers and 1,449,337 pounds of freight, these figures including operations of only the leading companies. Twenty-three light airplane clubs conducted with Government aid had a total membership of 2887 and owned or controlled Si machines. Twenty-one. air accidents in the period took 2."> lives; 14 pilots anil 11 passengers. Five accidents occurred on air mail routes, eight in Hie airplane clubs, one in a. manufacturer's test, two were suffered by pleasure parties and three happened on the ground.

i outage at the next,' which lias been tightly singled out by an astute observer as one of the most striking of . Lloyd George's characteristics. The 'stark courage' which he has so often displayed throughout his career, even to the point of apparently jeopardising his future, has invariably been begotten of 'the cold caution' which has led him to mark the lie of the land before he lias taken big adventurous leap." "Mr. Edwards suggests, or conjectures, that the Limehouse speech was no impulse," writes "A. A. B." in the Wvening .Standard in doubling the author's view, "but a deliberate plan to goad the House of Lords into rejecting the Budget and so pave the way for the Parliament Act. Whatever may have been the intention, the speech had no such effect.

"They acted foolishly in rejecting the advice of Lords llosebery, St. Aldwyn and Balfour of Burleigh to pass the Bill. But they did so because Arthur Balfour and Lord Landsdowne had been persuaded by the Tariff Reformers that K dissolution would defeat the Government,"