AVIATION’S NEW FASHION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 233, 1 October 1929, Page 11

AVIATION’S NEW FASHION

DROPPING IN FOR TEA The great progress made in civil aviation is exemplified by the recent newspaper report describing how a gay dinner party left Paris by air on Saturday evening, witnessed a West End revue in London, had supper at the Piccadilly, danced till 3 o’clock in the morning, departed by ’plane at 4, and arrived in Paris at 6.30 a.m. Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, who was present, said that this pleasant evening excursion was the beginning of a new fashion. Compared with progress in other countries it is apparent that New Zealand is far behind and yet her geographic position makes the development of air service of the utmost importance both for internal communication, and the lessening of distance by air travel with other countries, with the resultant possibilities of increased trade for the Dominion.

Aerodromes and the provision of aeroplanes are the first essentials, however, in all the main centres, and a practical move has been made by the Auckland Aero Club in their promotion of an art union, approved by the Government, to provide for a permanent aerodrome in Auckland and additional planes.