AUSTRALIAN

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1922, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN

! AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILK ASSOCIATION

M/OlltH’S CIIAItOKS. , SYDNKY. .1 hi!;' Id. ; Denials iii'- given to earlier reports that tin- I,!)lioiir Conference Cotnmit--It"’s find ini's favoured .McOirr. ft is . now stated 1 lint his charges were on- ; KiiljHtmitilltc-cl mid tlint four Ministers j vol-.il ega illst cniltililianc of file basic' wage ; also t’int tl'o ennuis votedajjninst it. Ollier charges made by Me- ; (, ; irr nlso wore not proven. The reooi t, , strifes the Committee exhaustively >ni,uireil into tlie allegation that Mi l 1 Storey "'ns inelineil to lorni n ( oalitmn v ith 'the Nationalist- unhesitatingly; declares there is not the slightest jus- ■ tifi.-ntioii for the charge. "Inch is n ? ' j, r! ,v slander on n mnn nniversnlly re- f specteil. The Committee added Hint a dispute occurred during n tune of : „rM,t stress, when MeOirr probably thought his colleagues were not acting ' ; riolitly. The C'ommiLb o recommended i stroll"- measures should he token to j ovoid similnr dis]»iites in future. ! COM.MKIKTAI- FLYING. j (lioceived tiiis dnv at. !ho!) .i.ni.t j MKI/BOCKNK, June If). Sir Keith Smith, in nn interview.

declared a service of first-class air- . ships could easily put Mdl.iTiirne with- ' in twelve days easy travelling of London, at a cost considornhly less than first-class mail boat rates. Thirty pa-- | senvers could easily he carried in comfort", with proper cabins, lounges and smoking room accommodation. He was I convinced that a properly organised commercial aerial sendee subsidised for the first two or three years, could, after j a short time, he run at a profit, though the public was still rather too afraid of aeroplanes to make much corn in ci - ~ja 1 use of them for some time. But tlieir time will come. There certainly had been n largo number of disastrous accidents lately, lint it must lie.remembered that much more- publicity had been given them than to other accidents,"like that to TWB which resulted from attempting to adopt machines built for scouting purposes, to cominor. cial purposes, for which they were not ! fitted. Such accidents would possibly | ne ver happen to airships designed sole- ! ly for commercial purposes. Such vos- | sols were as safe to manoeuvre as any ordinary liner. Mooring masts have completely solved the problem of their linw'ieldiness.