LOSS OF AIR LINER

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21179, 28 October 1938, Page 9

LOSS OF AIR LINER

SEARCHING INQUIRY ORDERED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 27, 6.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, October 27. The Federal Government has decided to make a revolutionary change in the constitution of the committee which will investigate the Kyeema disaster. The Attorney-General (Mr Menzies) announced that because of the special circumstances involved in the disaster, a leading barriser and highly qualified technical aviation expert, not connected with the Civil Aviation Department, would be added to the membership of the committee. The inquiry would assume the same position as a Court of Law. FINE RECORD OF SERVICE LATE MR C. A. HAWKER ONE OF ABLEST PUBLIC MEN By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, October 27. Particulars of the career of the Hon. Charles A. S. Hawker, M.P., who was killed in the Kyeema crash, were given by the Hon. W. Downie Stewart to-day “Mr Hawker was one of the ablest and most popular public metrin Australia, with a splendid record of service both in peace and war,” said Mr Stewart. “I met him recently at the British Commonwealth Relations Conference at Lapstone, and had several long talks with him. He had a remarkable knowledge of Australian trade and marketing problems, and when he spoke at the conference his statements carried great weight. He was for some years on the Commonwealth Board of Trade, and was Minister of Commerce. He wrote various pamphlets on wheat growing problems. “I was told by several public men that the Federal Cabinet should at all costs get him to rejoin the Cabinet, owing to his great ability and popularity,” added Mr Stewart.