"ONLY ONE AERODROME"
HOBSONVILLE'S DISTINCTION.
PROVISION FOR. SEAPLANES.
COSTLY, BUT NECESSARY.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
The statement that "There is only one »ei odroine ill the rival sense of the word in New Zealand, that at Hobsonville," was made by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, in the course of an interview with a deputation of flying enthusiasts at Lower Hutt yesterday.
Hobsonville aerodrome was the only one in the Dominion that could handle eying boats, said Mr. Wilford, for Wigram was only a landing place, and the Wellington City Council's grounds could not satisfactorily take a flying boat. The aerodrome at Hobsonville was right on the water's edge., and it was very complete. It had cost the Government a lar~e sum of money, but the Government realised that provision must be made, for seaplanes. None of the proposed landing places that had been placed before him had contained provision for a slipway.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 56, 7 March 1929, Page 11
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