AVIATION SCHEMES.
CRIPPLED FOR FINANCE.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Feb. 6.
General Hoare, in opening the Air Conference at the Guildhall, said: “It was a tragedy that at the moment when we wished to embark on worldwide schemes of aviation and development, national expenditure was reduced to the bare subsistence level of post-war expenditure and confusion continued. Military aviation must have the first call on the nation’s purse. Personally he regarded the huge expenditure on armaments as an intolerable burden on trade and industry, and an outrage to Christian civilisation itself. Within the necessary financial limits he was determined to try to develop civil aviation. He desired to see an Imperial air service started soon, either by airships or aeroplanes. It was a matter for the Cabinet and Dominions to de--1 cide. The subject needed an instructed ■ public opinion. He did not desire air ! questions to be discussed in the termiI nology of remarkable feats.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1923, Page 5
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