AVIATION CONFERENCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19128, 24 September 1936, Page 15

AVIATION CONFERENCE

DOMINIONS AND BRITAIN ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES noted Visitors to n.z. ■(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Delc<*ates to the aviation conference arrived from Sydney by the Wanganella to-day. Air. F. G. L. Bertram is the representative of the British Air Ministry and other arrivals were senior officers of: the Australian Commonwealth Post Omce and tho . Civil Aviation Department, Capt E. C. Johnstone, the controller oi general civil aviation,, Mr. M. L. Shepherd, secretary for defence, Mr. H. 1 • Brown, director of postal services, and Mr. M. B. Harry, chief inspector of postal services. Sir Archdale Parkhill, the Australian Minister of Defence, is also to visit the Dominion, leaving Sydney by the Awatea on Friday. Important discussions are expected to take place on aviation questions affecting New Zealand., Australia and Great Britain, With particular reference, to the proposed trans-Tasman air mail service. Mr. Bertram and the Australian representatives come at. the Government's invitation,. Mr. Bertram following a request to the Imperial Government to place an officer at the disposal of the New Zealand Government to give advice on aviation developments. He was the Imperial Government's representative at a conference in Australia nearly two years ago. At the. present time, his special work is in connection with the Empire air mail scheme. He has been associated with the administration of aviation in England since 1919-