cP . GOVERNMENT BLAMED. BY COUNSEL FOR CIVIL BOARD. By, . »slegraph—Press Association —Copyright. MELBOURNE, November 30. The Kyeema air crash inquiry, which lasted 23 days, closed today, the transcript of evidence occupying 1500 pages. Mr E. G. Coppel, for the Civil Aviation Board, said that the delay in purchasing a plane to test the radio beacons was the responsibility of the Federal Government. There had been no delay in the manufacture of the beacons, and their installation was not hindered except for the provision of a building, which was the responsibility of the Department of the Interior. The board had gone as far as they could to stir that department into activity. The delay in the provision of buildings was a handicap, but for which the whole story might have been different.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1938, Page 7
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