AIRPORT BUILDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 14

AIRPORT BUILDING

' CONTRACT LET

PAN-AMERICAN PLANS

{By Telegraph—Press Association.) \ AUCKLAND, November 1. A contract for the erection of an airy port building on property leased from the Auckland /Harbour Board in Mechanic's Bay, near the snore end ot the eastern breakwater, has been let by Pan-American Airways to the Fletcher Construction Company. Work is to begin within a few" days, as the site has already been prepared, and the building should be finished early in December. . ■ The building, which will comprise aii office for the Auckland airport manager, Mr. A. L. Lewis, storeroom, workshop, and other accommodation, will be of semipermanent construction.

.-Other arrangements necessary for /the preparation of the site as a flyingboat base are in hand. A floating gangway is being made and a landing float or barge^ will be purchased at

Auckland. (The Pacific division airport engineer i hps communicated with the Auckland Hriifeaur. Board in connection with the provision ot a 50ft jetty from a tarseeled strip of foreshore. The jetty will-lead to .the gangway, giving access -to" the landing float which will be st ' lesitt 100ft'from the shore, a distance made necessary by. the vast span of 153 ft of. the Boeings -\ which are to be used when the company commences carrying passengers across the Pacific. . "On the.prjopef ty-we have leased we are als6 building a pump-house for fuel," said Mr. H. Gatty, representative ■ of the company. "There will be a pipeline leading along the breastwork and jetty to the landing float witb flexible connections. Drums of fuel will be taken to the pump-house and their contents pumped' into the machine, and then'they yrill,' he removed so that there will be ne fire hazard.". ..