NELSON NEWS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21807, 12 June 1936, Page 20

NELSON NEWS

NEW AERODROME WORK TO BEGIN SOON [THE PRESS Special Service.] N NELSON, June 111 The Minister for Public Works (tU, Hon. R. Semple) was interviewed fag the chairman of the Nelson Harbont Board (Mr A. Gould) and Mr W. <3 Harley, a member of the board, abota the proposed aerodrome at the Quad an tine Reserve site, and a report oa the interview was given to a meeting of the Harbour Board by the chain man. Mr Gould said that the Ministq agreed to authorise the taking over oa the ground as soon as the notice coubj , be gazetted. The Minister also autbj orised that the work on Quarantine Reserve be begun at an early dafry The work would be done by the moaj modern machines and completed il the earliest possible time. The Minister expressed to the depot tation his conviction that Ned Zealand would have a very rapid do velqpment of her air traffic within thg next few years, and said that thi Government was doing all that it in providing for the future. The aero> drome should be finished within eigtd months of starting. Mr Harley, in adding to the chain man’s remarks, said that he had asked the Minister about unemployed andn he intended to use them on the work; The Minister had answered that In would not allow any work to be dong by men which could better be dotM by machinery, and he would soooed pay men full-time wages to play team than to have them push wheelbarrowi uneconomically. In answer to Mr C. T. Price, thtf chairman said that the cost to ty board would evidently be the cost oi tools and supervision, or probably aq amount for depreciation on thd machinery. The Minister, said Ut Harley, had told the board to construct as big an aerodrome as possible, whicty would do them for the next 15 yean Personally he had never met a mosj straightforward Minister. He gave dc| finite answers to all their question^ Rotary Luncheon Address An address on the thermal regions of the North Island was given at thi weekly luncheon of the Nelson Rotaiy Club by Rotarian C. L. Cato. PresU dent E. A. Bone presided. A vote oj thanks to the speaker was moved by Rotarian J. A. Harley. Visitors to tha luncheon were Rotarian V. M. EdgaS (Wellington), Messrs W. V. Rout and A E. Macpherson (Nelson). Railway for Nelson While in Wellington recently the chairman of the Nelson Harbour Board (Mr A. Gould), as a representative of the Progress League, asked tha Minister for Public Works about tha latest position of the Nelson railway, and was informed that officers were covering the ground and making investigations, and all that was possible was being done. Children’s Health Camp The establishment of a permanent children’s health camp site at Tahuna beach was suggested at the annual meeting of the Nelson Health Camp Association, and it was decided to make representations to the city council for the setting aside of a suitable area. The following officers were elected: Patron, Dr. J. P. Jamieson; president, Mr H. J. Savage; vice-president, Mr W. Bateman; honorary vice-presidents, the Mayor (Mr L. Page), Major R. ' Dagger, and Dr. E. Irwin; honorary secretary, Mr S. W. Street; honorary treasurer, Mr L. W. Lockyer; honorary auditor, Mr W. R. Jaques; committee, Messrs Savage, Street. Page, Bateman, W. A. Armstrong, H. J. Thornton, A. Robinson, Lockyer, D. McKee, Wright, A. S. Adam, H. Hurst, L. N. Montgomery, S. Cannington, Dr. E. Irwin, and Mrs J. S. Tennant.