ALTERNATIVE AIR FIELD

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28475, 3 January 1958, Page 11

ALTERNATIVE AIR FIELD

Canterbury Aero

Club’s Search

A search for an alternative flying training field within 10 miles of Christchurch airport, to be used when crosswinds make landing and take-off conditions at the airport unsuitable, is being made by the Canterbury Aero Club

“It is my intention to continue the policy of sending aircraft to Ashburton whenever crosswind conditions obtain at Harewood,” said the chief instructor of the Canterbury Aero Club (Mr 1. H Gunderson) yesterday. “At the same time I am continuing the search for a suitable field within reasonable ’distance from Christchurch which we could use as an alternative training field.

“However, it is obvious that we cannot recoup all our losses in this manner, and in any case this method must increase the cost of flying to those members who travel away from Harewood to do their training." he said.

More Methodists in U-S.—Mem-bership in the Methodist Church in the United States passed the 9.500,000 mark this year. Statistics for 1957 show that membership has increased from 9.444.820 to 9.566.629 during the past year. The Rev Albert C. Hoover, of Chicago, director of the Methodist Statistical Offic’e. based his re- ' port on latest figures furnished ] by. the church’s 100 annual regi- ■ onal conferences in the United i States. Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico The report lists 39.359 organised churches.—Philadelphia