CIVIL AVIATION’S FUTURE

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1932, Page 7

CIVIL AVIATION’S FUTURE

EFFECTS OF DISARMAMENT

PROVISION FOR DEVELOPMENT.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT ON GUARD.

FRENCH PLAN NOT YET RECEIVED.

British Wireless. Rugby, Nov. 8. In the House of Commons Lord Apsley asked the Prime Minister whether, before any decision was reached regarding the extent to which the British Government could agree with the French disarmament proposals, and particularly those- on the iternatlonal control of civil aviation, he would ensure that such an agreement would in no way prevent the future developments of British eivil aviation either of a private nature or on the existing and proposed Empire routes to India, South Africa, Australia and Canada.

The Prime Minister replied that he had not yet received the new French disarmament proposals, but the Government in the United Kingdom would certainly bear in mind the importance of , providing fully for the future of British civil aviation and the development of Imperial air communications. Replying to a supplementary question regarding private flying, the Prime Minister said, he could not enter into details, but the House might take his answer as one that would guide the Government in the general policy. ‘ Asked whether dissociation of civil flying altogether from the armed forces of the Crown was being considered, the Prime Minister said that was naturally one ofthe questions that must arise.