HAREWOOD TERMINAL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 15

HAREWOOD TERMINAL

Comparison With Overseas New Zealanders are far more air-minded than the people of many countries and the Dominion's development of air transport was well ahead of many other much larger and more powerful countries, said Mr J. E Davies, Christchurch branch manager of the National Airways Corporation yesterday. Mr Davies has recently returned from a six weeks trip overseas on business and after having landed at 18 airports on his travels he said that only the London. Zurich and Frankfurt terminals surpassed the Christchurch terminal building in excellence. None of the others was anywhere near it.

‘‘Mind you these three are quite vast by comparison with our airport but we are pretty much on a par with passenger facilities provided at the •terminal,” he said.

Of all the airports he travelled through Mr Davies considered Glasgow to be

more of a parallel with Harewood in that it was the ! centre of the Scottish air network system and so had similar transportation problems.

The actual terminal building itself bore no comparison with the one at Christchurch either functionally or aesthetically, although it handled some 750.000 passengers annually, he said. Mr Davies said the trip had been most stimulating and had enabled him to see something of the developments taking place in the United Kingdom’s air transport.

Some of the things be observed might even be applied here but they were of either a technical or organisational nature rather than for straight passenger facilities. he said.