ROCKET RANGE
NEW SITE CHOSEN WORK TO BEGIN SOON (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 11.50) CANBERRA, This Day. A proposal to establish the head of the rocket bomb range at Mount Eba has been abandoned, and a new site selected in the same area, but within 15 miles of the east-west railway line. An immediate start will be made to establish rocket headquarters at the new site, and the first experiments are expected to begin probably within the next nine months. Supersonic aircraft, which will take part in some of the experiments, wilt be brought to Australia, much earlier than anticipated, and the first are ex pected to arrive very shortly. Plans are now being completed to fly prefabricated dwellings on to the site, so that it might be completed as quickly asjiossible. Other prefabricated huts will be flown to various points along the range to house the experimenters who will be located in South Australia some 60 miles from the location of that originally proposed. The decision will save the Commonwealth Government many thousands of pounds in the cost of establishing the range, and will not interfere with the actual line of fire, which will be almost as originally plotted by the British rocket mission.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 158, 17 April 1947, Page 3
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