GOVERNMENT AEROPLANES
WHY THEY WENT TO TIMARU. ' Questions were asked in the House of Representatives yesterday regarding tlie dispatch of Government aeroplane? to Timam, where a syndicate is proposing to establish certain aerial mail and passenger services. The Minister of Dcfence (Sir Heaton Rhodes) replied that the machines had not been Riven to the syndicate or even lent to it. There was a recommendation by the Air Board, but that, had not. yet been considered by Cabinet. What had given rise to the rumour was thfc fact that one of the promoters of the syndicate had pointed ont that if these machines ivcre unleaded at Sockburn, aftor being discharged from the ship at Lyttelton, there wns no means of loading them again there, nnd it was asked that they be unloaded at Timarti at tfc ; expense of the company, ponding an agreement between the syndicate and the Air Board if that could bo arranged; To this the Defence Department had agreed on the understanding that the company would bear the cost of unloading, reloading, and storage. Mr. Witty: The machinca could fly from Sockburn.
Sir Heaton Rhodes: But it was a question of assenliljng tlio parts.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 302, 15 September 1920, Page 7
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196GOVERNMENT AEROPLANES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 302, 15 September 1920, Page 7
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