AVIATION CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 8

AVIATION CONFERENCE

IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS PENDING BRITISH EXPERT ARRIVES [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 23. Delegates to the Aviation Conference arrived from Sydney by the Wanganella. Mr E. G. L. Bertram is the representative of the British Air Ministry, and other arrivals were senior officers of the Australian Commonwealth Post Office and Civil Aviation Department —Captain E. C. Johnstone (Controller of General Civil Aviation), Mr M. L. Shepherd (Secretary for Defence), Mr H. P. Brown (Director of Postal Services), and Mr M. B. Harry (chief inspector of Postal Services). Sir Archdale Parkhill, the Australian Minister of Defence, is also to visit the Dominion, leaving Sydney by the Awatea on Friday.

important discussions are expected to take place on aviation questions as affecting New Zealand, Australia, and Great Britain, with particular reference to a transtasman air mail service. Mr Bertram and! the Australian representatives have come at the Government’s invitation, Mr Bertram following a request to the Imperial Government to place an officer at the disposal of New, Zealand to give advice on aviation developments. He was the Imperial Government’s representative at a conference in Australia nearly two years ago. At _ the present time his special work is in connection with the Empire air mail scheme. _ He has been associated with the administration of aviation in England since 1919.