GREAT BRITAIN’S AVIATION POLICY.
ESTIMATES PRESENTED IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. By Telegraph. — Press Assn.'—CopyrightAus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 26, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, February 25. In the House of Commons, in introducing the Air Estimates, Sir Samuel Hoare said he was convinced that the present slowing down of the Air Ministry’s activities would not impair the aircraft industrj', but we would benefit in consolidating and perfecting our air force structure.
Alluding to the Empire air routes, he said such a network would assuredly make Empire defence more mobile. He expressed the opinion that the basis of the civil aviation policy should be the creation of communications between London and the centres of the Empire. He believed the Eg}’ptKaraohi service would be the first step in the foundation of a long distance route, from which would arisq a demand for extensions to Bombay and elsewhere.
The Minister also expected that a substantial advance would be made in the current year in the airship programme, in which not v>nly the development of the Empire, but of Empire defence, would be bound up.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17781, 26 February 1926, Page 8
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