AIRPORT BOARD

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 264, 3 August 1932, Page 8

AIRPORT BOARD

Proposal in Manawatu CONTROL OF MILSON Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, August 2. The Manawatu Aero Club and the Milson Aerodrome Society have a proposal under consideration for the formation of an Airport Board in Palmerston North. A conference is to be convened'in the near future of representatives of the Palmerston North City Council, the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce and the Kairanga County Council. In addition to discussing the proposal to form an Airport Board, the conference will also consider the best means of utilising the sum of £lB5O which the Manawatu Aero Club recently secured as a result of a national art union. The Milson aerodrome consists of a level area of 55 acres wtih sufficient fall to allow an effective drainage. It commands an extensive view of the surrounding country, and is sufficiently remote from the hills and other vertical obstructions which cause dangerous upward air currents. The aerodrome is readily accessible from the city, and yet is beyond the residential suburbs, while its value is enhanced by the complete absence of telephone and power lines, trees, and other obstructions.

The aerodrome was established by an organisation of citizens which, though registered as a company, acts in no way as a commercial concern. Its primary aim has been to establish and maintain the aerodrome until such a time as an airport board, as now proposed, could take over control of the site and the buildings. The aerodrome was officially opened in December of last year, when the club held its first air pageant