AVIATION PROBLEMS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20531, 24 September 1936, Page 11

AVIATION PROBLEMS

CONFERENCE THIS WEEK By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, September 23. Delegates to the Aviation Conference arrived from Sydney by the Wanganella. Mr F. G. L. Bertram is the representative of the British Air Ministry, and the other arrivals were senior officers of the Australian Commonwealth Post Office, and the Civil Aviation Department, Captain E. C. Johnstone, Controller of General Civil Aviation, Mr M. L. Shepherd, Secretary for Defence, Mr H. P. Brown, Director of Postal Services, and Mr M. B. Harry, Chief Inspector of Postal Services. Sir Archdale Parkhill, the Australian Minister of Defence, is also to visit the Dominion, leaving Sydney by the Awatea on Friday. Important discussions are expected to take place on aviation questions, affecting New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, with particular reference to the trans-Tasman air mail service. Mr Bertram and Australian representatives come at the Government’s invitation, following a request to the Imperial Government to place an officer at the disposal of New Zealand to give advice on aviation developments. Mr Bertram was the Imperial Government’s representative at the conference in Australia nearly two years ago. At the present time his special work is in connection with the Empire air mail scheme. He has been associated with the administration of aviation in England since 1919.