Oversea Air Terminal

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25812, 25 May 1949, Page 4

Oversea Air Terminal

The Timaru City Council is to be commended upon framing so broadly the resolution, dealing with a South Island oversea air terminal, which it adopted on Monday evening. The council could have supported the establishment of a terminal at the Levels airport or have advocated Harewood or have left the question to be decided on its merits. It chose the third course, and supported the placing of the South Island terminal on the safest and best site. The Government has said that it needs the aerodromes committee’s report before it can decide. This report will provide the final evidence, although much that is authoritative and cogent js already available in the Report of the Tymms mission. The Timaru City Council, however, has recognised that the Government’s decision will be finally determined by the advice iit receives from the committee. The ! Harewood Oversea Air Terminal ! Committee, and Canterbury and j Christchurch interests, would probi ably have liked the council to give | the same whole-hearted support to • Harewood as other South Island : local bodies. But no one can reasonably object when the council, in ' the face of undoubtedly strong local ' pressure, adopts the perfectly correct position of its resolution, that the decision should rest squarely on the evidence, and many will applaud.