AIR DEVELOPMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 10

AIR DEVELOPMENT

INFORMATION DESIRED

TO GUIDE LOCAL BODIES

■ A proposal is being made to the municipal conference at Timaru by the Dannevirke- Borough- Council .that the Government should be askeoV to give a lead to local bodies in aerodrome development. The council has put forward the following remit:—

"That for the purpose of giving borough and county councils a lead in airways development along the right lines, the Government be requested'to have carried but a survey of the whole of. the Dominion by its technical air advisers and officers, and that plans be prepared and made available to every borough and county council, showing:

"1. The location and essentials of (a) main airports, (b) subsidiary airports and landing fields, (c) emergency landing fields. . '~■/■.

"2. The regional boundaries of each airport or landing field so as to indicate to the local bodies lying within that area the sphere within which their air development lies.

"We consider that airways should be constructed and developed along the lines of a co-ordinated plan throughout the whole of the Dominion," states the Dannevirke Council. "At present some local; bodies have little; or no indication from an expert source that will give them a lead in establishing an airport suitable for the requirements of the future, and development may be haphazard."