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Southland Times, Issue 17732, 9 August 1917, Page 3

In conversation with a Lyttelton Times reporter after a visit to the Aviation School at Sockburn on Monday, Sir Joseph Ward said: —“When the war is over there will not and there cannot be a discontinuance of the uses of the aeroplane for effective and necessary defensive purposes. In all parts of the Umpire, I am sure, when the war is over, the need for making provision for this branch for defensive purposes will be accomplished by a great movement to use the aeroplane for utility purposes of a peaceful nature. The improvement in the machine has been so great that it is now beyond all question that it will l>e used for commercial purposes. I look forward to seeing mails, that is, letters, conveyed between the important centres in this country through the air, with greater rapidity than any other form of transit. So that (he work which Mr Wigram has been responsible for promoting is not going to end with the war. It will, in my opinion, be necessary in this country to continue the making of machines to train our vouths, and to utilise at least a portion of their services under peace conditions for the requirements of the people,”