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Sentence of one year's hard labour each was imposed by Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy "yesterday on Chan Lul, and Chan Kwok Hop, woman, for the posses- slon of 1,885 heroin pills.

Revenue Officer Ward said that the defendants were arrested on December 5 at 16. Graham Street. irst floor, and the premises seemed to be a distributing centre.

Chan Lul admitted the possession of the heroin, but the, woman said that she financed, the, manufacture of the pliia

LOTTERY

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Tam Sang, 29. unemployed, was brought before Mr. Q. A. A Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday tor possession of 100 Hong Kong po piu lottery tickets at Canton Road near Peking Road on December 12.

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Detective-Sergeant Haynes said on December 12 at 4 p.m. a detec- tive, acting on information, search- ed the accused in Canton Road near Peking Road. The tickets were found in an envelope in defendant's Jacket pocket. value of the tic.ets was $70.

His Worship imposed, a fine of $30 cr. in default. three months' hard labour.

“SHADOW"

The

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DEFENDED

Sir P. Sassoon On Air Expansion

ADVANTAGES GAINED FROM DELAY

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Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secre- tary for Air, spoke about the Government's "shadow" aircraft scheme recently to a meeting the Conservative Association at King's College, Strand. He said:

The destruction of one, or eve. several links. In the chain of "shadow" factories during war Would not dislocate the whole chain of production,

BRITAIN'S "AIR

UNIVERSITY”

Training Empire Pilots

FLYING-BOAT COURSE AT

HAMBLE

In preparation for the new flying-boat service which Imperial Airways are to operate next year as a result of the Government's decision to send all Empire mails by air, a number of the company's pilots are now, in effect, back in **school" to receive a thorough training in the special technique required for the Handling of flying-boats

This special marine training is being carried out at Britain's "air university." run by Air Training Services. Ltd. at Hamble, which is the largest school of its kind in the world.

the Postmaster-General's W/T air operator's licence, and the ground engineer's licences in at least two categories.

♫

"At Hamble we accept ex-public schoolboys of 171, their training ́occupies from 3 to 94 years. They receive in the Arst instances basle engineering training, and in all complete a total of 300 hours! fying on a variety of types of land and sea craft'

"Their training also provides for the whole of the licences I have mentioned, and includes 30 lectures. on commercial practice, Bo far. every student who has completed These Imperial Airways "train- the rourse satisfactorily has im- officers of long exmediately found employment with ees are

one werk who perience in air-liner

of the air operating rom- have in nearly'all cases more than pinles. 1000 hours Aying to their credit, but the change over from liners to flying-boata involved in coming developments of the Em- pire air services means that they must add high skill in seamanship to their other qualifications

-CONVERSION COURSE”

air

"Depending on the nuraber of licences he possesses, his minimum pay will be £400 a year, and it's no exaggeration to say that if we nad 50 students in possession of all the qualifications to-day they could immediately be, absorbed into cull aviationi,

"At present we have Over 50 The special "conversion course" which 100 Imperial Airways students taking the long courBE, ufficers are to take at Hamble in- 30 taking the ground engineers' 20 on miscellaneous cludes lectures, demonstrations, crurse, and

courses. This figure does not in- and the bandling of marine air-

clude the R.AF trainees, who craft, the full course occupying 100 hours. of which 32 ate spent

cumber about another 30. Most Be accommodated in students flying-boats. in seaplanes and When the new services planned quarters on the aerodrome, and our recreational facilities are equal by Imperial Airways are in opera- tion the company's flying person- to those of any public school or nel will have been increased from University." 96 to 262.

Group Captain R. J. F. Barton, the School Commandant at Hamble, stated in a speech re- ceny that three or hour plots are accepted at a time for a course ol 4 weeks' duration. Part of the first week is devoted to calling and general seamanship, carried out in a 10-ton ketch, under Com- mander Webb, R.N.R.; before the nying-bost course is begun. The remainder of the course is divided inte flying and seamanship, which include a variety of practices on the water, and to lectures on the handling of flying boats and alled subjects. The actual flying com prizes 12 hours on Cutty Sark The development of our air ex-amphibian aircraft and 20 hours pansion scheme colricided with the on the Rangoon or Calcutta fying period of unusual progress in the performance and design of engines'

Brought into being at the in and we were now getting "formid-stigation of the Air Ministry in able machines that opened up a 1931 to improve the standard of new development in aircraft design civilian ying, the Hamble "atr and technique; and

The progress of the Air Force expansion scheme was satisfac~ tory.

"At present," said Sir Philip.. "these factories are being used to do a certain definite job-a cer- tain quantity of engines are vitally needed for our expansion scheme but it is entirely a peace-time

Job

boats

university" has since trained 488 civilian students from 37 countries, in addition to inițial training for a large number of R.A.F. entrants..

The school commenced opera- tions with 10 aircraft, four flying instructors and two ground in. structors. Now it has a fleet of ever 50 machines of 12 different types, while the instructional es- tablishment has been increased to

"During war it will be perfectly 25 flight instructors Band 23 possible to make arrangements and ground instructors,

allocations of work and production Hamble concentrates particular- between these factories so that they on the training of youths for a destruction of even several links

in the chain will not dislocate the

whole chain of production."

Referring to the defence plan, he

said that the only criticisms one

career in aviation

Commenting

on the prospects In this eld, the School Commandant wald:-

BIG DEMAND FOR PILOTS "With the growth of civil avia- heard were that the Government|tion and the expansion of Empire was going too slowly or that it had air routes there is a big demand started too late..

for properly trained young men

"No one could sympathise more of good education. The cost of than I with those who would like training is equivalent to the fees

to see rearmament speeded up," he at Oxford or Cambridge fer a sim’- said, “but I think we must not, inlar period, but I claim that the spite of that, under-rate what we have done and what we are doing or exaggerate Our deficiencies,

prospects of obtaining immediate employment on completion of the course are much more certain.

Nor do I think it right entirely to The time is past when a man overlook certain advantages that

with a "B" licence and a certain.

we have derived from starting amount of experience could obtain when we did.”.

FROGRESS IN DESIGNING

employment with any of our air lines. To-day It is essential that

It so happened that the develop-he. should possess the whole of ment of our expansion scheme in the following qualifications: the Air Force coincided with a

The "B" pilot's licence, the

period of great progress in aircraft second-class navigator's Licence, designing. By being able to take

the full opportunity of that pro-

gress we had been able to provide but we did require a modern, well- our squadrons with much better equipped, up-to-date Army.

and much more formidable ma The only limit that could be ret chines than if we had started ear-to Air force expansion was the one Her

or home defence needs-until we How good those aircraft were could get an indication from other was demonstrated by the fact that countries that they were willing to so, many foreign nations were ari set a limit to their air programme xious to secure examples of them. The general rearmament pro- although they might have to wait gramme had been well lamiched and was going along satisfactorily. a very long time.

"I do not want to be too opti- mistle, but I should like to tell you that I think the progress in the

Bir Philip said that he did not think that we in this country had need of a large conscript Army on

the Continental model, because if Al Force expansion scheme is did not "ault 'our particular needs, satisfactory," he added.

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