§ Mr. BILLINGI take this, the first opportunity, to call attention to a subject I have purposely allowed to drop for some months. Directly the Air Board was appointed I, in common with several other critics of the air administration in this House, decided to allow them at least to have an opportunity of settling down and seeing if there was any likelihood of the friction and intrigue which had occasioned the trouble and the delay both in the production and in the efficiency of the administration disappearing. It is quite a number of months since that has happened, and subsequent to the last agitation in favour of a more efficient Air Service we did for a short time gain the supremacy of the air on the Western front. To-day that is not so, and I do not think that any man who has identified himself as I have done, with the question of the Air Service of our country, should refrain from rising now and calling the attention of the House to that question. The friction between the two services is as great to-day, and is more serious, because it is more suppressed than it was twelve months ago.
§ Notice taken that Forty Members were not present: House counted, and Forty Members not being present, the House was adjourned at Five minutes after Eleven o'clock till To-morrow.