EMPIRE AIRWAYS.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REVIEWS PROGRESS. RUGBY, November 4. The Civil Aviation Committee of the Imperial Conference to-day reviewed the progress of Imperial air communications with heavier-than-air craft sinee the last Conference, and was impressed with the commercial and political advantages of developing and speeding them up still further. Some expressed the view that the next stage, which will be opening next year, of the regular service between England and South Africa, would be followed by an extension of the weekly air service between England and India to Australia. It was recommended that when facilities offered are equal, preference should be given to Empire air routes in the matter of trial air mails. It was also recommended that the personnel of the existing liaison system should be placed on a more permanent basis, that interchange for periods of service could take place between administrative and technical air officers in the Empire, and that technical officers should confer for the purpose of evoking a permanent standard of airworthiness within the. Empire. In view of the inquiry into the RlOl disaster, the Committee made no recommendations regarding airships.—/British Official Wireless.)
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Wairarapa Age, 6 November 1930, Page 6
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188EMPIRE AIRWAYS. Wairarapa Age, 6 November 1930, Page 6
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