MILITARY AVIATION .
Sir,—My attention was drawn to a paragraph in your paper of Friday last wherein you give an account of Mr. Scotland, the aviator, and his intention of going to England to join the Royal Flying Corps as a military aviator. This reminded me that the New Zealand Government spent a fair sum of money on the education of a military aviator for New Zealand —Lieutenant AV. W. A. Burn,' N.Z.S.C. This gentleman had the misfortune to be-recalled from England just two weeks bofore war was declared between England and Germany. Mr. Burn, I understand, is at present in Auckland doing duty as the adjutant of the 3rd Auckland Regiment
(infantry). The question I now wish to aßk j'on or your Government is, why has Lieutenant Burn been kept at infantry work in New Zealand, when ho could be of such value to tlio Imperial Government in Europe at present? Lieutenant Burn, I am told, is the only colonial up to the present timo to qualify a.s an aviator to satisfy tlio Royal Flying Corps Officers. Surely the Government need not keep this highly qualified expert hero without some good reason, and 1 for one, would like to know what that reason is.—l am, etc., BOMB DROPPER. . ,Wellington January 25.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2369, 27 January 1915, Page 9
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211MILITARY AVIATION . Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2369, 27 January 1915, Page 9
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