"AIR SENSE"
PROPOSAL TO TRAIN H.Z. BOYS EFFECTIVE DEFENSIVE ARM [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, February 21. Speaking at tho Navy League deputation to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence, Sir Alexander Roberts said the League believed that at the present lime the young men ol New Zealand were keen on the air, and some encouragement should bo given them to acquire “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 bo quickly converted into an effective defensive arm.
“We realise the importance ol establishing the ‘ air sense,’ ” said the Minister of Defence (the lion. Mr Rolleston), in reply. “Only a lew days ago 1 submitted to the Prime Minister a proposal as to the way in which the Defence Department might subsidise air clubs. You can lake it that the matter is in hand, and that it will be considered.”
Referring to commercial aviation, tbo Minister said his own opinion, lor what it was worth, was that New Zealand was not so suitable for commercial aviation as wore other countries—Australia, for instance.
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Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 5
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192"AIR SENSE" Evening Star, Issue 19799, 24 February 1928, Page 5
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