FLYING CLUB PROVES POPULAR IN SYDNEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 371, 4 June 1928, Page 14

FLYING CLUB PROVES POPULAR IN SYDNEY

NO ACCIDENTS YET HAWKE’S BAY AIRMAN’S VIEWS “The Sydney Aero Club is the greatest institution of its kind in the world, and is doing a great deal in Australia to encourage aviation.” Mr. Eric Dale, formerly of Hawke’s Bay, who served with the Australian Flying Corps during the war, was a passenger from Sydney to-day by the Aorangi, and expressed his admiration of what has already been accomplished by the Sydney Club. He was, therefore, particularly gratified to learn that an Aero Club had been successfully launched in Auckland, and that another had been formed in Christchurch. Mr. Dale expressed the hope that similar clubs would be established in the other leading’New Zealand centres. Though no fewer than 6,000 flights had been made by members of the Sydney club, he declared, there had not been a single accident. Little had been done to date, however, by- the Government to assist the club in New South Wales, and Mr. Dale was pleased to hear that the New Zealand Government was doing all possible to foster the establishment of these clubs in this country. Moths seemed in much favour among Australian aviators just now, he said, and several purchases had been made by squatters and people living in isolated parts of the interior. After serving with the Australian Air Force in France, Mr. Dale was attached to the only Australian squadron associated with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine. He is in New Zealand, on this occasion, on business.