RONGOTAI AERODROME

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 10

RONGOTAI AERODROME

REGULATIONS FRAMED. [THB PBBSS Special Serrlct.] WELLINGTON, November 25. Last Saturday week's air pageant and the subsequent opening of thecity's aerodrome at Rongotai quickened the City Council into action. At today's special meeting the Mayor (Mr G. A. Troup) introduced a new Wellington City Aerodrome Control Amendment by-law. In the first place the Mayor had to explain why all through the by-law the word "airport" had to be changed to "aerodrome." "The Minister for Defence," said the Mayor, "has got ;+ into his head that there is a difference between an airport and an aerodrome. Be conceives an aerodrome to be merely a landing place, whilst an airport is a kind of home for all aircraft. Anyway he insists on us calling our ground an aerodrome in case the Government later makes an airport at Porirua or somewhere else." The new by-law provides that no person shall fly any aircraft over any building in the City of Wellington at a height above the ground level less than 2000 feet except when within gliding distance of the landing area at the airport. Where an aircraft is being flown over the city and the engine of such aircraft fails the pilot shall endeavour to the best of his ability to land in the sea as near the edge as possible. ]n criticism being published of the Rongotai airport one pilot says the hangars are in the wrong place and form nn obstruction, and also that the wind mast is in the way and should be at the of the ground, while the colour renders the vane obscure. COPELAVD ELECTRIC BEFRIGERATOR. j The "Copeland" does not require Ice. Simplv push in the plug and the machine automatically produces a dry f ro *ty refrigeration day and night. Milk may be kept for weeks, and tough meat is no longer a worry to the housewife Think of the delights of iced drinks, salads, fruits, sweets, ice cream, etc all the summer. MASON. STBUTHEBS AND CO., LTD.