Russell As Landing Base For Imperial Airways
I Special to “Northern Advocate ”] RUSSELL, This Day.
During the week, members of the Public Works survey party, at present encamped at Paihia. visited Russell j with a view to surveying a suitable site for an emergency landing-base for flying-boats employed in the Imperial Airways New Zoaland-England service, which will probably commence in October. Operations were carried l out in Matawhi second bay, so as not to clash in any way with the Pan-American base in Matawhi Bay proper. If the place selected by the Public Works Department is considered satisfactory by those concerned, then a buoy will be put in place in the near future. Both bays offer excellent shelter, and both are easily accessible to all types of flying-boats. Immediately outside the bays there is ample water space for landing or for taking-off in several directions, and it is very rarely that the (water surface is badly ruffled in this particular corner of the Bay of Islands.
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Northern Advocate, 29 July 1939, Page 2
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