Gisborne’s Air Traffic
Up to the time when war exigencies suspended the air service • between Gisborne, Napier and Palmerston North, the average number of people travelling from Napier southward was two per day, whereas on the air link between Napier and Gisborne the average was eight per day from Napier. Passenger traffic between Palmerston North and Gisborne totalled 1205 per year, on the average, and Air Department estimates show that- this number should increase to 7066 by 1947. These figures are quoted in the report of Messrs F. W. Furkert and E. R. McKillop, two engineering experts appointed to report on the most suitable site for a central aerodrome for the Napier-Hastings district. The report quotes also certain figures relating to population in the Hawke’s Bay urban and. rura.l areas, which show a much decreased rate of population increase for 'the. whole ctisfrict,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 10 May 1944, Page 4
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143Gisborne’s Air Traffic Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21400, 10 May 1944, Page 4
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