AIR CLUBS
QUESTION OF SUBSIDY CONSIDERATION BY GOVERNMENT Proposals for the subsidising of air clubs in New Zealand are at present under consideration by the Prime Minister. Speaking at the Navy League conference deputation to the Prime Minister and Minister of Defence yesterday, the president (Sir Alexander Roberts) said the league believd that at the present time the young men of New Zealand were keen on the air, and some encouragement should be given them to acquire an “air sense,” so that, in the event of necessity, the nucleus of a body of trained and partially-trained men would be available. Commercial aviation could be quickly converted into an effective defensive arm. “We realise the importance of establishing an ‘air sense’,” said the Minister of Defence (Hon. F. J. Rolleston), in replv. “Onlv a few days ago I submitted to the Prime Minister a proposal as to the wav in which the Defence Department might subsidise air clubs. You can take it that the matter is in hand, and that it will be considered.” Referring to commercial aviation, the Minister said that his own opinion, for what it was worth, was that New Zealand was not so suitable for commercial aviation as were other countries—Australia for instance.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 8
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206AIR CLUBS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 125, 24 February 1928, Page 8
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