POKE ISLAND AERODROME

Northern Advocate, 22 May 1929, Page 4

POKE ISLAND AERODROME

FLYING SITE TO BE OFPEKED.

The Legal’ Committee of the Whangarei Harbour Board recommended o|t this .morniiiig’s" meeting* “tliat • a lease of 80 acres of the Roheulsland reclamation be offered to the Wha* ngarei Aero Club for a term of fiye years' at a rental of £s’;per.s)nuun, pins any rents that msy ,bo obtained for tho grazing of the , land, and thgt iho tenancy be terminableiby the board at any time by six;months' notice, as it provided by section 5 subseel ion (b) of the Public Bodies Leases Act. That in offering this lease, the board inform the club that a,t the expiration :of the term the matter of a further; 'and more p£ripnnent lease will be toortsi'diOted- if (the land is then required ; fof iatiatipn purposes. . ’‘hiv,iCr;‘ •’

Moving that the be adopted, Mr J. E. Holmes • said tliat flying should be encouraged ’• in Whangaroi. It could be understood hha,l all money handed aver to the Harbour Board for grazing wouldd be spent in developing the aerodroineKreclamation. Whereas perhaps members might be inclined to. grant very, easy conns, it must be understood that the Harbour Board had a public duty to perform in developing its endowments to it he fullest extent. ■ Consequently) Hie lease being renewed yearly .was -a wise provision. v

Mr L. A. Johnson seconded.' ]je thought that the Aero Club Wasbegiven very satisfactory terms, but that body: should not rest entirely upon (the Harbour Board, Mr Young thought the rental a .low one, ■ !. ,• The chairman pointed out that grazing rental would add considerably to the receipts, “But perhaps the dub, now it has received such advantageous' may not consider f grazing,’ ’ suggested Mr Young. “.But it is in their interests to graze the land/’ rejoined Mir Fihtyyson. “All receipts from this source will go back into the reclamation. ’’ The recommendation was approved.