GRANT OF £3000
GIFT TO KINGSFORD SMITH. GOVERNMENT’S DECISION. (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) Canberra, October 25. The Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, announced that the Federal Government had decided to make a grant of £3OOO to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. An alternative suggestion to find a position for Sir Charles had been considered by Cabinet, but it was found that at the present stage of air development in Australia no service position suitable for a man of his qualifications was available. Furthermore, the acceptance of a Government appointment would have prevented Sir Charles’s intended appearance as a tenderer for the air mail contract. Interviewed at Melbourne Sir Charles said: “This is a wonderful gift and the most practical thing that could have been done for me at the moment.
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Southland Times, Issue 22156, 26 October 1933, Page 7
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131GRANT OF £3000 Southland Times, Issue 22156, 26 October 1933, Page 7
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