EAST COAST AIRWAYS
Services to be Resumed on October 1
WORK ON GISBORNE AERODROME East. Coast Airways’ Napier-Gisborne air services, which were suspended by the cancellation of the Gisborne Aerodrome licence in March last, will resume on October 1. The service had been operating for nearly 11 months when the Director of Air Services, Wing Commander T. M. Wilkes, withdrew the aerodrome licence because the surface of the aerodrome, which is owned by the Gisborne Borough Council, had become too rough and the runways were too short to allow the airliners to take off with full loads. Plans for the enlargement of the aerodrome to three times its size had previously been prepared, and after a conference between the Gisborne Borough Council and other interests, the Public Works Department took the work in hand, under the supervision of Mr. E. A. Gibson, the department’s aerodrome engineer. Since then the task had steadily progressed so that by October 1 the work will be sufficiently advanced to allow the services to ojierate as regularly as before. Extension of the airline down to Palmerston North to link up with Union Airways, is a development which the company has in view and plans to operate at a later date.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 253, 22 July 1936, Page 8
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205EAST COAST AIRWAYS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 253, 22 July 1936, Page 8
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