HAWERA AS AIR PORT

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 January 1930, Page 4

HAWERA AS AIR PORT

DOMINION AlTt SERVICES

STOPPING-PLACE ARRANGED

“Hawera definitely will be a permanent stopping-place on the through route from Auckland to Wellington, and the town should be seeing our ’planes before the end of 1930,“ said Mr. C- S. Robertson, representing Dominion Airlines, Ltd., who is at present on a visit to Taranaki, when m conversation with a “Hawera Star reporter this morning. Mr. Robertson’s firm lias its services already* mapped out, and the first route that will be exploited is Gisborne-Hastings-Wellington. One plane—a Westland three-engined limousine, allmetai and all-British —is at present on the way out, and others are to follow. With. Mr. F. hysons, of the Hawera Aero Club, Mr. Robertson went over the club’s aerodrome this morning and expressed satisfaction with the landingground, saying that it would be quite satisfactory for his firm’s machines, which are on the big side —as big as Kingsford-Smith’s Southern Cross, but not requiring quite as much landing and taking-off space. Hangar accommodation, it was -pointed out, would be necessary, but the club lias arrangements for tiiis in hand. Mr Robertson will return next week with the company's technical expert for a conference with the club committee, when working arrangements will be discussed.