ARDENT CITIZENS
Clearing Airport Site WORK THROUGH NIGHT Palmerston North, December 5, Work on the transformation of what wgB once a deeply-furrowed, rush-covered paddock into a modernly-equipped aerodrome for the city, continues apace, as the result of the efforts of the band of citjteUS who are giving their services "“gratuitously to the furtherance of this end. Nof content with toiling during the daylight hours the citizens have been working all night for the past three nights. While one shift drove the highpowered tractor equipped with strong electric lights the remainder ‘alept ig a caravan oh the ground, The scene of the proposed airport is at Milsop, where the land has been leased by the Maliawatu Airport League from a settler pt this district. The Iqnd has been inspected by the Director of Air Services, Wing-Commander S, GrantDalton, who has' expressed satisfaction with it and offered assistance for a proposed pageant which is intended to be held when the ground js completed,
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 15
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161ARDENT CITIZENS Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 15
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