WANGANUI AIRPORT
THE FIRST LANDING
MONEY FOE RELIEF WORKS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WASfGAXtn, 30th November. Major G. A. C. Cowpor, of Western Federation Airways, made the first landing at Wanganui's airport this afternoon. To mark what was really the official opening of the port, he was welcomed by Mayor Rogers and representatives of the Wauganui Aero Club. It was a perfect landing, and an | equally perfect take-oft. Wauganui will be a port of call daily in the service between New Plymouth find .Wellington. • ■ Mr. Burgess,.president of the Aero Club,'announced that ;the club_ had £100 available "for unemployed relief. Provided a £200 subsidy can be obtained from the Unemployment Board, the amount will be spent at the uew'airj port within six week's.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 16
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