EMERGENCY BASE
RUSSELL SELECTED SITE FOR PAN-AMERICAN FLYINGBOATS (Per Press Association —Copyright). AUCKLAND, September 20. Ail emergency flying-boat base at Russell with a direction finding radio and moorings in a sheltered spo? tor use if required, is to be established shortly bv the Pan-American Airways, according to Mr Harold Catty, the Company’s representative in New Zealand.
“We do not plan to make Russell a port of call,” said Mr Catty on his return from Wellington, “but we must have some spot sheltered where flyingboats can put into to weather storms. No connection will be made with the shore at Russell.
He explained that in the . event of a storm in Auckland, the flying-boat would merely lie at the moorings until the .emergency had passed, and then would continue to Auckland. Likely sites, for two radio stations, one at Auckland and the other at Russell, will be inspected b’.v Mr Catty shortly.
Six members of the company’s staff will arrive at Auckland by tile Monterey in October. Meanwhile, Mr Catty "'ill arrange for the construction of dock and floating gear at Auckland Harbour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1937, Page 6
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