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closer. We advocate arrangements whereby Royal New Zealand Air Force engineering officers and officers of the engineering staffs of the national operators would give courses of lectures at the engineering colleges ; also that the Royal New Zealand Air Force and the national operators should make a practice of offering vacation courses in practical engineering to selected undergraduates. 193. We note the remarks in paragraph 6.74 of the Commission's report regarding the bearing of the Engineers Registration Acts on the professional status of aeronautical engineers. We have not had time to inform ourselves on this, but we are emphatically of opinion that the status of aeronautical engineers should in no respects be lower than that accorded to other engineers under these Acts. Aeradio operators and technicians (non-Government service) 194. The problem is akin to, if not identical with, the training of personnel for the civil aviation aeronautical radio service. We are without information as to the plans of the Corporation and Tasman Empire Airways. Since the problem is a common one, we recommend that consideration should be given to the establishment of common training arrangements for radio personnel for Government and the operators. 195. In passing, we note the admirable training programme for traffic staff established by the New Zealand National Airways Corporation, though we are not directly concerned with this activity. 196. We have received representations on a matter which is closely allied with training and affects the ability of the operators to secure their complement of qualified personnel, particularly engineers. Difficulty is experienced in securing licensed engineers to staff the workshops, and this in part arises from the infrequency of examinations and restrictions on the number of licence categories for which a candidate may be examined at one time. In view of the importance "of the licensing system in the regulation of civil aviation operations, the Civil Aviation Directorate should be adequately staffed and organised to meet all reasonable demands for the examination of candidates, and we recommend that consideration should be given to the measures necessary to improve the situation at an early date. CHAPTER 15.—FLYING CLUBS 197. Flying clubs have a definite and important part to play in any civil aviation training plan. We have received statements from the Royal New Zealand Aero Club and from a large number of the operating aero clubs, both in the North Island and in the South Island. We