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GIANT FLYING BOAT. SCRAPPED FOR ECONOMY? LONDON, Feb. 5. The aeronautical correspondent of “The Times” says that work has been stopped on the 40-seater flying boat weighing 35 tons, which was being built at\ Southampton. The Air Ministry is negotiating with Vickers, Ltd., with a view to cancellation of the contract on the ground of economy. There is every reason to believe that the boat will never be completed. Abandonment of the work is a blow to the development..of. flying..boats.suitable lor Atlantic servicesThe Air Ministry contemplated building a 61-ton flying boat when lessons had been learned from the seaworthiness of the--, smaller craft, but the delay will enable the' designers to profit from the Schneider contest experience and plan a flying boat with more power but of the same weight. The Air Ministry, meanwhile, will not lack opportunity to test the seaworthiness of giant seaplanes, as it has a project far more advanced than the 35-ton ship, but that at present is a secret. It is also about to place a contract for a fast mail-carrier. THEATRICAL BAN. LONDON, .Jan. 25. London’s leading showman, Mr C. B. Cochran, has joined in the vigorous controversy occasioned by the Ministry of Labour’s banning foreign artists. He says that such a policy will provoke repristals abroad, and will mean irreparable economic and artistic loss to Britain, especially as the aggregate annul royalties drawn by British playwrights front abroad dwarf the earnings of foreign dramatists in London. More than 50 of Hollywood’s leading directors are Englishmen. Hundreds of artists earn on the Continent I and in America sums that they could not obtain in Britain. The theatre, says Mr Cochran, must be national, but it is necessary constantly to draw on fresh inspiration from abroad in order to retain its vitality. Tlu> Paris corespondent of the “News Chronicle” denies reports that France ,is repatriating a thousand English artists employed in Paris its a reprisal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1932, Page 6
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