TEAM-WORK TRIUMPH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 5

TEAM-WORK TRIUMPH

AUSTRALIAN AIR RACE WINNERS ENTERTAINK!) EMPIRE ACTIVITY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received December 17, .11 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 10. Air. C. W. Scott and Mr. Campbell Black were the guests of the NewsChronicle at a dinner at Olaridge's. They emphasised the triumph of loam work for "the three of us," the Comet making up the trio. Australia, more than Britain, recognised the value of team work, without Avhich ths' Empire could not be solidified. Colonel F. C. Sholmerdinc, Director of Civil Aviation, hinted at an early visit to Australia. He suggested tnat the Australian Flying Corps was born in Egypt, after (iallipoli, when a deputation of "Diggers" asked him, as adjutant, and the late Sir Geoffrey Salniond, to incorporate them in the Royal Air Force. Mr. S. M. Bruce criticised belitllers of British enterprise, and , remarked: "We are not as foolish as is imagined. Proposals are contemplated for providing a British service throughout the Empire belter than anything anyone else can supply.'' Lieutenant 'Cathcart-Jones urged England to emulate Australia and provid'e £20,000 for a round-the-world race limited to aeroplanes carrying a minimum of four passengers.