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Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 8

The Southland Times FLYING SCHOLARSHIP The Airman s Day Is At Hand FLYING AS A CAREER » New Zealand Must Have Pilots OEFORE the end of the year a regular weekly ■“■J’ service between England and Australia will be in operation. That service must ere long be extended to New Zealand for the simple reason that this dominion cannot afford to stand outside the system of air communications that is spreading steadily over the face of the globe. On established services traffic in passengers, mails and merchandise is increasing by leaps and bounds. Not so very long ago the air-borne mails from England did not exceed 100,000 letters per annum. Now over 12,000,000 letters a year go by mail and the number is increasing at a faster pace than ever. So much time is saved by air transport as compared with surface transport that firms which send their correspondence by rail and steamer are at a great disadvantage as compared with those who use the air mails. The time has come when transactions of urgency and importance require the use of air transport. Statistics show also that more and more private correspondence is going by air-mail. Air passengers to and from London have increased from a hundred or so weekly to totals numbering thousands, and parcels consigned by air have increased from a mere handful to loads which now amount to more than 60 tons weekly. The mileage of British routes has increased in fifteen years from 250 to 14,000. Aircraft have developed from single-engined 360 h.p. machines, carrying two passengers, to 4-engined air-liners of 2200 h.p. carrying 38 passengers and a crew of four. The reliability of commercial flying has increased from approximately 60 per cent, to just on 100 per cent. What is happening in Britain is happening in other countries. From every quarter comes the same story of the expansion of air traffic. New Zealand cannot lag behind. The dominion must be linked up with the England-Australia service, and internal air services for passengers, mails and goods must inevitably follow. This great transport system of the near future must have pilots. It opens up the prospect of interesting and lucrative careers for young men—and for young women too, as the deeds of Amy Johnson and Jean Batten amplj prove. The young men and women of Southland must play their part in this enterprise. They have the mental and physical qualifications for it. They can be trained here and now by the Southland Aero Club, and by way of encouraging air-mindedness in the district and helping at least one ambitious young man (or young woman) towards a flying career The Southland Times has offered the Southland Aero Club a Flying Scholarship worth approximately £5O. The Southland Aero Club has accepted the offer and conditions have been agreed upon as under. The Southland Times Flying Scholarship Conditions : 1. The Southland Times Company Ltd. will pay the costb of• * c °urse of instruction in flying for a candidate to be selected under these conditions, such course to carry such candidate to the A license stage. 2. This scholarship, which will be known as “The Southland[Times Flying Scholarship,” will be administered by the Southland Aero Club. 3. The competition for the scholarship will be open to all Persons resident in Southland between the ages of 17 and 34 years at 31s. March, 193 . 4. The Southland Aero Club will select the successful candidate for training by a process of competitive elimination. 5. Entries must be made by filling in one of the entry forms aPPe®ring in the Southland Times and forwarding it, together with an entry fee of £l, to the Secretary of the Southland Aero Club, Mr J. E. Cuthill, Tay Street, Invercargill (P.O. Box 249). 6. The entry fee of £1 will provide for approximately half an hour’s instruction to be carried out in the tests. 7 When all entrants have carried through the required tests a selection of six candidates will be made for further tests, and from these a final selection will be made. 8. Competitors will be judged on natural aptitude and ability as disclosed in the tests. 9. The Aero Club’s decision will be final, and the Club shall be entitled to exclude any individual from participation in the competition, and to return any fee paid without giving reasons for such action. 10. All instruction in connection with the competition will be carried out at the Club’s aerodrome at Myross Bush or at Gore at the Club s option. 11 The successful competitor will be required to become a pupilmember of the Southland Aero Club, and conform to the rules and regulations of the Club. 12. Entries for the competition will close on 31st October, 1934. Competitors will be entitled to undertake tests at any time after lodging their entry and fee, and must do so before 30th November, 1934, failing which the entry shall be deemed to be abandoned. In such event the fee shall not be refunded, but the entrants shall be entitled to receive value of same in flying. ENTRY FORM The Southland Times Flying Scholarship The Secretary, The Southland Aero Club, P.O. Box 249, Invercargill. Deal’ Sir, — Please enter me for the Southland Times Flying Scholarship. Enclose herewith £1 entrance fee. Mr Full Name : Mrs —■ Miss Address : Business — Private — Occupation - Date of Birth — — —— - -

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